The journalist Nellie Bly may be famous for having gone “around the world in 72 days” in the late 19th century, but she wasn’t alone. A few decades after the pseudonymous Bly made waves with her ...

Paris, 1922—Pen in hand, sixteen-year-old Idris Hall stepped from the crowd and away from her past. At six feet tall, she stood head and shoulders above the dapper little man in the Boy Scouts uniform ...

Aloha Wanderwell. The name itself sounds destined for adventure, and there was adventure aplenty in the 1920s for a young woman eager to see the world. Back then, before the jet age, the world outside ...

Aloha Wanderwell was born with an adventurer's name, and she certainly lived up to it. The first woman to drive a car around the world "wore men's breeches and had a pet monkey," says Atlas Obscura.

Inspired by a remarkable journey a century ago, Ford challenged Lexie Limitless to become the first person to drive around the world in an electric vehicle. Inspired by the pioneering automobile ...

Dumaresq de Pencier is the exhibit and project coordinator for the Canadian Automotive Museum in Oshawa, Ont. She parked her car on the Sphinx. She smuggled Russian gold out of Vladivostok. She ...