Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of fewer than 1,000 residents and is governed as an absolute monarchy in support of the Pope.

Samurai History dates back to the Heian Period of feudal Japan, where the warriors were considered military nobility until national jurisdiction abolished them in 1869.

The 86-mile-long Berlin Wall was built by the Soviet Union after WWII, in response to mass defections by East Berliners into the non-communist zones of Berlin.

Created by ancient Nazca people as long ago as 2000 years, more than 800 lines–sometimes stretching for miles–ancient Nazca Lines form animal, plant and anthropomorphic geoglyphs of debated purpose.

Ruling from 1479 to 1458 BCE, Hatshepsut was Queen to Pharoah Thutmose II who died with a young heir, Thutmose III, giving Hatshepsut the opportunity to usurp power.

Astronomically speaking, Earth’s orbit of the Sun takes precisely 365.2421 days — the extra quarter of a day per year necessitating a leap day in the Gregorian calendar every four years to avoid seasonal shift.

Rediscovered in the Cambodian jungle in 1860 by a French Naturalist, Angkor Wat, also known as Temple City, is a 400 acre complex honoring Hindu and Buddhist faiths.