A look at perplexing and unusual objects. This episode focuses on a lost language, a beauty machine and something called the Disk of Strangeness.

A look at perplexing and unusual objects lying hidden away in museums, laboratories and storage rooms.

This latest collection of objects comprises an intriguing 35,000-year-old box, a steam-powered gun and a monument that may have been an Aztec throne.

Examine a 9,000-year-old clay head, a 1950s machine built to control the weather and a map which could be the oldest ever found.

Examine an ancient pyramid toolkit, a device that unleashes lethal X-rays and a divisive terracotta sculpture. 

Examine claims Nostradamus predicted Hitler. Plus, learn about the canary resuscitator and a tiny object with the power to kill. 

Investigate a machine which can supposedly read personalities, a mask painted with human blood and a cursed pot.

Exploring the origin of a death mask, three carvings which could shed light on Stonehenge and a plate found in Austria. 

A 5,000-year-old carved stone object is shaped into four symmetrical lobes covered in unique markings. Why people believed an electrocution device could cure. And a 3,000-year-old cat mummy with no cat inside.