Located near the natural Pont d'Arc land bridge is the Chauvet Cave, a cave that contains some of the oldest existing examples of prehistoric paintings.

The cave was discovered in 1994 by a team of speleologists: Eliette Brunel-Deschamps, Christian Hillaire, and Jean-Marie Chauvet (for whom the cave is named). Hundreds of paintings exist in the cave, and at least 13 distinct depictions of prehistoric animal species have been catalogued.

Chauvet Cave is incredibly unique for many reasons. Not only it's age (presently thought to be 32,000-30,000 years old) but also the level of pristine condition of the artifacts in the cave. There are footprints from humans tens of thousands of years ago, and impressions from cave bears sleeping in the cave.

In addition, the artists who created the cave paintings had a unique level of mastery to their craft. Cave walls were cleared and etched, then charcoal used to create figures (with detail, shading and representation of movement) that seem to leap from the walls.

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Miss Bathsheba's tattoo...

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Benh Zeitlin, the co-writer and director of Beasts of the Southern Wild, was inspired by the renderings of aurochs in the Lascaux Caves.

One of the rooms in the caves, called the Great Hall of the Bulls, is dominated by four giant depictions of aurochs (the wild ancestor to cattle). One of the auroch drawings is 17 ft (5.2 m) long- the largest animal discovered so far in cave art.

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On September 12, 1940, four teenagers and a dog stumbled upon a series of caves with nearly 2,000 different prehistoric drawings near the village of Montignac, in the department of Dordogne.

The artwork is approximately 17,300 years old, and feature extinct animals, human figures and abstract symbols.

The Lascaux Caves were added to the UNESCO World Heritage Site list in 1979. The caves were initially open to the public, but mold and damage from human exhalation and traffic threatened the paintings, so now only science nerds can look at the ancient art.

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Located in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles is the former residence of Nicole Brown Simpson.

At 12:10 a.m. on June 13, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were found murdered outside this residence.

Simpson's lawyers convinced the LAPD to allow O.J. to turn himself in for a suspected double homicide. Instead of willfully going to jail, O.J hopped in a white Ford Bronco with Al Cowlings and had a slow-speed chase during Game 5 of the Knicks-Heat Finals (the game was shown in a tiny box in the corner while the helicopter footage filled the screen).

On October 3, 1995, after a 252-day trial, O.J. Simpson was acquitted of the murder charges.

Today, O.J. is in jail on 12 other charges, including armed robbery and kidnapping, and serving a 33-year prison sentence.

The four bedroom, 3,700 sq ft. condo had its address changed to 879 S. Bundy Drive, and the house sold in 2006 for just under $1.7 million.

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