Drawing of Christopher Columbus

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A vessel at sea comes across the mythical ghost ship The Flying Dutchman

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A Painting of The Grand Canal in Venice

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Tituba of Salem, in a 19th-century illustration (Photo by The Granger Collection/Alamy)

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An 1866 painting imagines a suspected ‘witch’ being led away from a braying mob during the 17th century (Photo by WAVE: The Museums, Galleries and Archives of Wolverhampton/Getty Images)

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An illustration of a crow chasing a silhouette of a man running away in the distance

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Illustration of a woman with an insect net looking at some larger-than-life butterflies and moths.

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Ships in battle on the sea

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A purported portrait of Elizabeth Báthory as a young woman

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Photo of Hiram Bingham

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How a proto-Indiana Jones rediscovered the Inca stronghold of Machu Picchu

Jai Singh II (third from left) built astronomical observatories across northern India in the 18th century, incorporating knowledge he’d sourced everywhere from China to Portugal (Photo by Dinodia Photos/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Athénaïs de Montespan, one of the official mistresses of Louis XIV, was a suspect in a scandalous plot to murder the French king (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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A mermaid combing her hair

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Paris became a charnel house during the St Bartholomew’s Day massacre, as shown in this painting by François Dubois (Photo By DEA / G. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini via Getty Images)

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An engraving of the pirate Henry Avery with his ship in a notorious raid that almost pushed England and India to war (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

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