Virginia Woolf’s groundbreaking novel entitled Orlando, which was ahead of its time in terms of understanding fluid sexual orientation and transgenderism.

Dutch physics and art student, Theo Jansen, nearly started a riot with a helium-powered “UFO” art project. Today, Jansen’s Strandbeest sculptures stun audiences around the world.

Lewis Carroll created the story for Alice in Wonderland on a River Thames boat ride near Oxford, in which a bored young girl Alice (named after Alice Liddell, another passenger on the boat) falls down a rabbit hole into a subterranean fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures.

The Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre Museum in 1911, where the painting hung in relative obscurity in a backwater wing of the museum. Picasso was accused, Napoleon was accused, but Vincenzo Perugia was caught for stealing the mona lisa.