From abandoned mining cities to nuclear tests and shipwreck mysteries, these 20 islands with strange stories will shock you.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A dwarf elephant the size of a Shetland pony once roamed the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. In the West Indies, a giant rat-like rodent tipped the scales at more than 400 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1863, a Russian paleontologist and mining engineer made his way through the Eocene strata of the Caucasus to the shores of the ...

A strange, dark mass in the middle of an island on Google Maps is blowing up social media with speculation — with some users suggesting that it’s a “censored” destination. The image of Vostok Island, ...

One century it was there, and the next it was gone. But in the Gulf of Mexico, northwest of the Yucatán Peninsula, there used to be a small uninhabited Island called Bermeja. Legend has it that one ...

A mounted skeleton of an extinct Sicilian dwarf elephant, the size of a Shetland pony, is seen at Museo Geologico “G. G. Gemmellaro” in Palermo, Sicily, Italy in this undated handout photo. Dwarf ...