Medieval siege weapons were kind of amazing. We're talking massive battering rams, mutant crossbows and wheeled towers bristling with archers. Our personal favorite is the trebuchet, a type of catapult that uses a counterweight on one end and a rope sling on the other to hurl huge stones several football fields away.

To the best of our knowledge, no one has ever used a trebuchet to shoot a basketball into a hoop -- at least, not until trick-shot group Legendary Shots came along:

Awesome. We would totally build our own trebuchet, but given the massive amount of effort and knowledge involved (and the fact that we don't have any castles held by recalcitrant rebels that we need to knock down), we think we'll pass.