Exploding cigars, poisoned wetsuits, Mafia hitmen and secret memos. Declassified records reveal how the CIA repeatedly tried and failed to kill Fidel Castro, exposing a strange Cold War world where obsession often replaced strategy.

Before gym selfies and protein powder, a Swedish doctor built machines that exercised patients for them. Gustaf Zander’s nineteenth century system reveals how the modern workout was born from medicine, machines, and office work.

Hidden beneath a small Italian church, plague victims became perfectly preserved by chance. The mummies of Venzone puzzled scientists, fascinated Napoleon, and were treated as ancestors by locals for centuries. Nature did the embalming, and no one knows how.