Image: Historycenter.org
Screenshot: The X-Files
A man, a plan, the Batman, banter, the can-can, a cannoli, Panama! (Photo: MrPanyGoff/Wikipedia)
Someone once thought turning GEICO's 15th-most-popular ad campaign into a sitcom was a good idea. (Screenshot: Cavemen)
An Ashanti stool modeled on the throne. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum online collection)
Screenshot: House Of Cards
Peter Cooper did many remarkable things, not the least of which was growing this beard. (Photo: Brown Brothers)
1876 Electoral Map (Graphic: Public domain)
A hillside vineyard above a redwood and fir forest in Boonville (Photo: George Rose/Getty)
Drugs and submarines don't always have to be a bad combination. (Image: Yellow Submarine)
Image: Nick Wanserski
Screenshot: Fritz Lang's Metropolis, much of which was lost for decades and is now restored
An artist's impression of Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centaur (Image: M. Kornmesser/AFP/Getty Images)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience's Axis: Bold As Love
Sergey Ivanov's painting In The Time Of Troubles
Screenshot: Chicken Run
Camel, Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman (Screenshot: Ishtar)
An 1881 political cartoon depicting Charles Guiteau demanding a political appointment at gunpoint. (Image: Public domain)
Jack Nicholson as The Joker (Screenshot: YouTube)
Furtive customers line up to try the newest drug to hit the streets. The kids are calling it "pistachio." (Photo: George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images)
Ted Kaczynski
Screenshot: Harry And The Hendersons. In this 1987 film, a small boy is devoured by his enormous glasses. Lithgow appears well aware that this is not his finest work.
A plaque intended to grace the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, which Norton decreed be built. (Photo: Public domain)
A Shriner in one of that organization's signature fezzes and miniature cars, in a 2004 Memorial Day parade. (Photo: Rick Dikeman)
Screenshot: The Wizard Of Oz
Screenshot: The Simpsons Movie
Ace, Batman's Bat-hound
A scene from Mad Men, set in the now-defunct Burger Chef (Photo: AMC)
