Every year for 20 years, this whaling museum has hosted a marathon reading of Herman Melville's classic.

I've read Moby Dick many times, but never considered calling it a religious book until now. It took In the Heart of the Sea, a decidedly non-religious film, to remind me that the American classic is overloaded with religious cargo.

Fossils discovered in the 1800s were initially thought to have belonged to a walrus.