When Plato wrote about Atlantis in his *Timaeus*, a group of ancient Greeks actually took the story in it about Atlantis to heart. Either from sheer bravery, stupidity or both, they managed to gather many custom ships to their cause and set sail between the Pillars of Hercules to head for the supposed island and its inhabitants. They never came back, and the Greeks suspected that they were destroyed. In actuality, the ships had actually reached an island continent in the middle of the Atlantic...