Curiosity Stream

On a hot summer's day in 1934, a horrifying discovery was made in the trunk at the luggage office of Brighton Train Station. Two days later, a similar case was found.

As police investigated the disappearance of a wealthy widow, Olive Durand Deacon, in early 1949, they could not have imagined the gruesome confession told to them.

In the summer of 1953, the world watched Queen Elizabeth II crowned. The day before the coronation, the body of a teenage girl was found floating in the River Thames.

Bitemark Analysis appeared to fit neatly in the respected field of forensic dentistry until two researchers performed a bitemark study on cadavers.

Johannes Vermeer was all but forgotten for centuries and this iconic work lay dormant, overlooked before it was rediscovered.

Paul Cezanne inspired the most lauded artists of the 20th century, but he struggled for years to achieve anywhere near the levels of success.

Paul Cezanne inspired the most lauded artists of the 20th century, but he struggled for years to achieve anywhere near the levels of success.

Joseph Mallord William Turner was hailed as a prodigy from an early age and he went on to have a remarkably successful painting career.

Raphael forms the trinity of great masters of the Italian high renaissance alongside Leonardo and Michelangelo. All three artists were working in Rome at the same time.

New York is known as one of the rattiest cities in America with an estimated population of close to 2 million rodents. Here is how New York City rats out its rodents.

The yellow taxi cab is the quintessential New York City ride. But today the threat of ride-share apps and city scandal has left cab drivers to face devastating debt.

Many things come to mind when thinking about New York, but how the city deals with its garbage is usually not one of them. Here is how the city hauls away its trash.

New Yorkers create, on average, 1.3 billion gallons of wastewater per day that makes its way through 7,500 miles of pipes that make up the city's sewer system.

When firemen were called to Beirut port to put out a fire that had started in one of the warehouses, they heard a strange crackling sound.

In Tokyo, James tries not to get lost as he faces his fear of seafood, meets a blind breakdancer, and learns how the sighted and blind prepare for natural disasters.

The bullet train takes James to Osaka and his ultimate goal: to climb Mount Fuji. Outside the big cities, James searches for peace in Kyoto's myriad of temples.

Mat Watson tracks down one of the most desirable convertibles on the planet. The Mercedes SL Pagoda.

Thom's in Nevada, tracking down world record-holding mathlete Scott Flansburg, who's able to crunch numbers faster than a calculator.

Thom heads to Louisiana to meet Jerry Miculek, the human machine gun who can fire a handgun faster than an automatic weapon.

The endless plains of East Africa is a paradise for lions. The most social of all cats, lions form prides that are unlike any other animals.

Doug Thron is not your ordinary drone pilot. Using an infrared camera strapped onto his drone, he travels to the heart of disaster zones.

In the wake of Hurricane Laura, Doug heads to Louisiana to help a local firefighter find his lost dog and begin rescue operations in the hard-hit city of Lake Charles.

With the help of expert animal rescuer, Aja Estro, Doug continues his tireless search and rescue missions across the town of Lake Charles following Hurricane Laura.

Doug ventures into the charred neighbourhoods of Talent, OR with an old friend, Shannon Jay, to save any of the unlucky felines left behind in the wildfire evacuations.

On this journey, Patrick investigates whether nature's greatest survivors can inspire technologies that will help humanity avoid extinction.

Patrick investigates how life evolved ways to thrive in all corners of our planet. But can nature teach us better ways of exploring worlds beyond Planet Earth?

Few animals have more complex societies and interactions than elephants. For these slow-growing, long-lived animals, survival is dependent on knowledge passed down.

With their ship, the 'BT2', the crew of the Ostseetaucher travels to the Wohlenberger Wiek to clear an area on the bottom of the Baltic Sea for later construction work.

When firemen were called to Beirut port to put out a fire that had started in one of the warehouses, they heard a strange crackling sound.

In Tokyo, James tries not to get lost as he faces his fear of seafood, meets a blind breakdancer, and learns how the sighted and blind prepare for natural disasters.

The bullet train takes James to Osaka and his ultimate goal: to climb Mount Fuji. Outside the big cities, James searches for peace in Kyoto's myriad of temples.

Mat Watson tracks down one of the most desirable convertibles on the planet. The Mercedes SL Pagoda.

Mat Watson hunts throughout Europe for a classy Nordic coupe. The Volvo P1800.

With their ship, the 'BT2', the crew of the Ostseetaucher travels to the Wohlenberger Wiek to clear an area on the bottom of the Baltic Sea for later construction work.

The BT2 and its crew are getting ready for their next mission - this time, the Danish territorial waters are their destination.

MT Haven sank off the coast of Italy on the 13th April 1991. It has become a popular dive site for deep water divers.

When firemen were called to Beirut port to put out a fire that had started in one of the warehouses, they heard a strange crackling sound.

Mat Watson sets off to seek out a slice of Americana. A classic car from the USA.