Things break. That's one of the earliest lessons we learn as kids, isn't it? Our favorite toy,

those shoes we loved, sometimes even our dreams, and Willem knew all about that.

Let's just say that he had a hard time living up to his own expectations.

And what did he hope for himself? Success, of course. So when he took a job working in a store

at the age of 16, he probably assumed he would be successful and climbed that ladder, right?

For a while, it did, too. His job took him to London, the big city, and then onto Paris, the city

of lights. But then, after all he put into it, he got fired. So he decided success would have

to mean something else entirely. This time, he would follow in his father's footsteps and train

to be a minister. Two years later, though, he'd given up on school. He tried a less formal training

course, but three months into that, he failed out of there, too. Willem just couldn't escape his

broken dreams. His life had become one long series of failure, disappointment, and hopelessness.

But thankfully, he didn't give up, because there was one more thing he felt inspired to try.

Art Today, there are a few people in the world who haven't heard of Vincent Willem Van Gogh.

And while his paintings are things of beauty, we can also see them as symbols of something bigger.

That even when everything has fallen apart, there's still hope. That from the most fiery,

wreckage, and destruction, something else can be born. So today, I want to take you to a place

that embodies that lesson, right down to its core, a city that pushed through ruin and pain,

only to discover a world of story on the other side. But if the folklore that rose up from those

ashes has anything to tell us, it's that the worst kinds of tragedies aren't from an outside

force. They're the ones we've created ourselves. I'm Aaron Manky, and this is lore.

When the Spanish arrived in the 1770s, they did what they had always done. They built a mission.

Looking around at the beautiful coastline and vegetation, they named the place after one of

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