A university basement in Denmark is home to what's believed to be the world’s largest collection of human brains.

It starts nearly 40 years ago, when a teenage girl is pulled out of obscurity and thrust into the spotlight.

The Poison Garden at the Alnwick Garden has around 100 toxic, intoxicating, and narcotic plants.

Coffee was once believed to be bad for our health, but research suggests it can actually benefit us.

The story of humanity's love affair with alcohol goes back thousands of years.

As billions of solar panels near the end of their lifespan, Japan looks at innovative solutions to recycle them.

What we eat, or don’t eat, can have a huge impact on us and the generations after us.

The US actor reveals his rituals with his famous father-in-law, including "letting him win" at chess.

The Sisters of the Valley, a group of women dressed as Catholic nuns, legally grow and sell weed in Mexico.

At 82 years old, Jane Fonda is winning awards, protesting, and getting arrested.  

Milliat fought for women to participate in the Olympics, making Paris 2024's gender parity part of her legacy.

Sinéad O'Connor expert Allyson McCabe on singer's flawed legacy.

The stories of three women who were part of a quiet resistance against the Nazis in Berlin.

Quantum physicist Merritt Moore explains how robot technology helped her new sequences of moves.

During WW2, the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands turned three teenage girls into fierce resistance fighters.

Photographer Chloé Jafé spent six years documenting the life of women in the Japanese mafia.

Researchers have found a way to take carbon dioxide and turn it into syngas, creating carbon-neutral energy.

We find out what we gained when Homo sapiens mated with Homo neanderthalensis many thousands of years ago.

The musician explains a heavy moment thinking about the lyrics of a song from his forthcoming album.

The Travel Show goes to Bosnia to meet divers jumping from a 24-metre-high UNESCO listed bridge.

Fukuoka, a city on Japan's Kyushu island, uses cutting-edge technology such as satellites and AI to save water.

Snowfall is helping urban planners design safer and more pleasant streets in the US.

Some dairy cattle in Hokkaido are not only producing milk but also fuelling a more sustainable future.

How a monument to a late dictator has been repurposed and redesigned for a new generation.

Around 200 people still live in and around this abandoned mining town in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness.

Known as a broch, the exact purpose of these iconic Iron-Age ruins is still unknown.

Every year, Colombia's Caño Cristales transforms into a rushing rainbow - in a natural display that happens nowhere else on Earth.

The ancient city of Butrint is the first site in Albania to be added to the Unesco World Heritage list.

Chamois is Italy’s second-highest city, but it’s the first and only without cars.

In March 1999, Brian Jones and Bertrand Piccard made the first non-stop, round-the-world flight in a balloon.

In the south of Galway, the Burren National Park is home to magnificent endangered birds of prey.

BBC Click explores an Arctic vault that stores digital artefacts from across the globe.

The forgotten tale of how a high-ranking British politician's son went to work for Adolf Hitler.

New research is revealing that Stonehenge may have been used for exclusive ceremonies.

A journey to the hidden church in Slovenia from WWI that transformed into a symbol of peace.

In the 1950s, 58 jazz musicians, including many legends, assembled for a highly ambitious group photo.

How this one simple mistake gave birth to the 50-billion-dollar US chicken industry.

The BBC's Melissa Hogenboom explores why women were so vulnerable to accusations of witchcraft.

Researchers may have identified a new human species that lived around 300,000 years ago in Asia.

At the end of the Cold War, the town of Borne Sulinowo suddenly appeared on the map in northwestern Poland.

The Dutch are known for many things, including cheese, windmills and being the world's tallest people. But there's one thing they rarely do.

US baker and chef Nancy Silverton explains the difference between British and American scones.

Art critic Alastair Sooke travels to Doha to discover some of the treasures of the Museum of Islamic Art.

Ocracoke Island in North Carolina has only been accessible by boat for centuries, creating its own unique brogue.

One retired teacher is spreading the joy of books using his tiny mobile library.

Partially blind, he vows to continue until he can no longer see.

The way mothers are perceived and judged can have long-lasting consequences.

Meet the Swedish bodyworker tying people up – to help them out of their trauma.

A couple from Dublin have moved to one of Ireland’s most remote islands.

Meet the Giant Pacific Octopus, perhaps the smartest of all invertebrates and the bane of many a crab fisherman.

Home to majestic houseboats and floating gardens, this pristine beauty of Kashmir is on the verge of extinction.

Vietnamese-American journalist W Lee Adams visits Vietnam, home to some of the world's rarest plants and animals.

A wondrous red river in southern Spain has become a laboratory for Nasa operations aimed at exploring Mars.

Lord Howe Island: Saving an Australian paradise's 'cloud forest'

The Neelakurinji flower only blooms every 12 years.

In the driest desert on Earth, the ancient Chinchorro mummies keep many unveiled secrets.