The Château De La Mothe-Chandeniers In France Guillaume Souvant/AFP/Getty ImagesThe 13th-century Château de la Mothe-Chandeniers has survived a hostile British takeover, the French Revolution, a fire, and time. As far as old castles go, Château de la Mothe-Chandeniers has it all — including a giant moat that surrounds it, which serves as a striking reminder of the exclusionary nature of these abandoned palaces. The castle was built in Les Trois-Moutiers in Poitou-Charentes, a former administrative region on the west coast of France, in the 13th century by the Bauçay family.

Willard Wigan Perhaps the most impressive microsculptor of all is Willard Wigan, an English artist who started working with miniature art at the tender age of five. Back then, he simply made houses for his ants, but since then he has created everything from Michelangelo’s David to Buzz Aldrin and Betty Boop in miniature. Wigan created this Buzz Aldrin astronaut statue to mark the 40 year anniversary of the Moon landing.

In July 2012, 16-year-old Rachel Shoaf conspired with her friend Shelia Eddy to murder Skylar Neese by literally stabbing her in the back. From the outside, it seemed as though West Virginia teenagers Rachel Shoaf, Shelia Eddy, and Skylar Neese were best friends. But on July 6, 2012, Shoaf and Eddy lured an unsuspecting Neese into the woods of Pennsylvania, counted to three — and stabbed her to death. For several months, the teenage killers kept their horrific crime a secret.

Shawn Hornbeck was held prisoner for more than four years by pizza shop owner Michael Devlin — until he was rescued in January 2007 alongside a second boy named Ben Ownby.FBI/Getty ImagesThis undated handout photo provided by the FBI shows Shawn Hornbeck as he was pictured on a missing person poster from 2002. On Oct. 6, 2002, 11-year-old Shawn Hornbeck straddled his lime green bike and headed to a friend’s house near Richwoods, Missouri, a small town just outside of St.

The ancient city of Neopolis was a major Roman port on the coast of Tunisia that was submerged by a tsunami on July 21, 365 AD. National Heritage Institute Tunisia/University of Sassari The Atlantis-like remains of a Roman city that was submerged by a tsunami have just been discovered off the coast of Tunisia in the Mediterranean. Al Jazeera reports that a joint Tunisian-Italian archeological mission in the area has found the remains of the ancient Roman city of Neopolis in the Mediterranean, just miles off the coast of northeast Tunisia.