Carl Wyndham articles

PLACES

Japan’s Kabukicho Robot Restaurant resembles an automated gentleman’s club, complete with raunchy robots.

PEOPLE

She was the voice of Japanese propaganda in WWII, but Tokyo Rose was actually an American citizen stranded in Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

PLACES

The location of Alexander the Great's tomb is the greatest unsolved mystery in archaeology. While there are many persuasive theories, the riddle endures.

PLACES

In 2011, Tokyo's Shiodome Nihon TV Studios recorded one of the greatest human feats of all time, when 21 members of the Caless Dance School squeezed into a Mini Cooper.

PEOPLE

He was the ultimate on-screen tough guy, but John Wayne's deferment from service in WWII left an uncomfortable contradiction to the Hollywood image.

PEOPLE

When Al Capone went to prison for tax evasion, enforcer Frank Nitti was there to fill the void and bring a new crime wave to the streets of Chicago.

PEOPLE

When Arnold stepped onto the stage for the 1980 Mr Olympia contest, he set the scene for one of the most shocking moments in bodybuilding history.

PEOPLE

When an exotic foreign princess showed up in an English village, it marked the beginning of one of history's wildest hoaxes.

PLACES

In the heart of Prague’s Old Town, you’ll find a church proudly displaying a withered black arm dangling by a meat hook. The rotten limb is estimated to be about 400 years old—and its origin story is deeply disturbing.



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