A close examination of the Voyager Golden Records reveals the one flaw behind all attempts to bottle history: humans.

Could you win?

Some ashes were finally laid to rest.

Twigs, seeds and pollen can help heat up otherwise cold cases.

They're fighting birds with birds.

Across Ireland, hundreds of millennia-old Ogham stones are slowly weathering away.

You can only see them when it rains.

Like the rest of us, they droop.

A lot of spies used to eat here.

George O. Squier's Floraphone was set to transform the country's forests into communication hubs—until it didn't.

"The Magic Man of Cottonwood Island."

One of the trespassing pooches is still on the loose.

There are only six true blimps left in the U.S.!

Nice work, Reddit user.

For six centuries, the Corsini Family has recorded everything that's ever happened to them.

It had been closed to the public since 1934.

Far from Chernobyl, turtles, rabbits and cows make nuclear cleanups an educational mess.

This sculpture is made of human hair and wax.

As a new project, "Zeki Müren Hotline," shows, Turkey has never forgotten its own "Prince from Outer Space."

Incense, "ghost money," and pyrotechnics generate a surprising amount of smoke.

Back then, penmanship was basically secret code.

"He was a little cutie," observers report.

Music festivals are sometimes not fun.

He wants a lot of money.