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.

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, ...

Military facilities have existed at Montauk since 1796, when the Montauk Lighthouse became operational and its personnel began looking out for British ships that might attack New York or Boston. The ...

So many prospectors flocked to San Francisco during the gold rush in California that the city's population rose from 1,000 to 25,000 between 1848 and 1849. The discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in ...

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.

Perched on the Northumberland coastline, Bamburgh Castle looks as though it has been plucked straight from the pages of a medieval fantasy. Indeed, it is the fabled site of Joyous Gard, the fortress ...

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 ...

Geologists in Tasmania — an island off the coast of Australia — were stunned to discover rocks that contained a geochemical make-up identical to those rock layers in the Grand Canyon. Researchers at ...

If you’ve ever heard someone say the “sword of Damocles” was hanging over their head, they were likely referring to feeling a sense of impending doom, as if catastrophe could strike at any moment.

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 ...

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: ...