The wreck of the Nossa Senhora do Cabo, a Portuguese treasure ship seized by pirates in 1721, has been identified near ...

Though John Adams was old and ill when he died, the curious timing of his demise sparked countless unusual theories.

In 1915, Ernest Shackleton and his crew set out on an expedition in the Endurance to become the first team to make a land crossing of Antarctica. Their ship would become stuck in the ice and sink, ...

Researchers in the United Kingdom recently made a shocking discovery: a prehistoric fossil forest dating back 390 million years, making it the oldest known forest in the world. Their findings, ...

From Audrey Hepburn to Alfred Hitchcock, these colorized photos capture the Golden Age of Hollywood as it really was. Today, it may feel like every big movie is being produced by the same few studios.

One of the prevailing theories about the Hat Man is that he is a type of “shadow person,” a paranormal being that appears in the periphery of human vision. Shadow people are largely thought to be evil ...

The Hope Diamond first entered the historical record by 1666, when the then-112-carat gem was acquired in India by a French gem merchant named Jean-Baptiste Tavernier. Tavernier had made multiple ...

The rise of industrialism in the decades following the Civil War brought untold wealth to the United States. But beneath the lavish lifestyles of the robber barons, millions of Americans were living ...

Are jackalopes real? Believers in this elusive cryptid might point to the long history of alleged sightings as proof that these creatures actually exist. Works like Field Guide to the North American ...

Other, lesser-known towns were often just as raucous as Tombstone and Deadwood. Jerome, Arizona, for example, was once called "the wickedest town in the West" because of its proliferation of bars, ...

From malt shops and jukeboxes to the early civil rights movement and the atomic age, take a trip back in time with these colorized photos from the 1950s. After World War II, a new status quo emerged.

Indeed, “wyrm” came to serve as a catch-all term for these types of creatures, much like “dragon” does today. It is perhaps best to think of each creature as some variation on the same concept: ...