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.