A mysterious captain assembles a ship and crew for a secret and dangerous voyage.

An American naturalist travels south beyond the remote Kerguelen Islands.

On a bet, an eccentric Victorian gentleman races to circumnavigate the globe.

An engineer returns to a depleted coal mine at an old friend’s request and investigates mysterious happenings.

A young sea apprentice finds himself in charge of a ship, which is led astray to a land where the slave trade abounds.

An engineer poses as an aide to a scientist whose invention of a world-conquering weapon drives him insane.

Three men attempt to cross Africa by balloon.

After the end of the Civil War, the Baltimore Gun Club decides to apply its engineering expertise to the design of a cannon capable of shooting a projectile to the Moon.

A group of colonists attempt to settle in the Arctic Circle.

A Scottish lord and lady set off on a quest to find and rescue the shipwrecked Captain Grant.

Prompted by a mysterious Icelandic manuscript, a professor and his nephew, with the aid of a local guide, adventure to the center of the earth through the crater of a dormant volcano.

A courier of the Russian Czar must race against time and the Siberian elements to deliver a crucial message of an impeding Tartar invasion and possible treachery.

Five Americans, balloon-wrecked on a deserted island, must find a way to survive while revealing the island’s strange mysteries.

The giant rocket Columbiad travels to the Moon, engaging in discoveries and misadventures along the way.

A Parisian news reporter is assigned to travel across Asia by train and report on the sights, experiences, and interesting characters along the way.

A record of the ill-fated voyage of the Chancellor as told by one of the passengers.

An ex-slave trader with an encrypted note schemes about its meaning, while a man with a secret past travels with his family down the Amazon in a giant raft to attend his daughter’s wedding.

The wife of a lost fisherman finds his last message to her: a lottery ticket in a bottle.

The North Pole is auctioned off, and the winning team undertakes a scientific experiment to ameliorate the local climate.