Jonestown, the site in Guyana where more than 900 followers of cult leader Jim Jones died in a mass murder-suicide in 1978, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Colombian drug lord Griselda Blanco built a cocaine trafficking empire in 1970s Miami that flourished until she was finally caught by the DEA in 1985.

First described by Plato in his dialogues Timaeus and Critias in 360 B.C.E., the Lost City of Atlantis was a purported civilization near the Strait of Gibraltar that sank into the Atlantic.

When did Rome fall? 476 C.E. is commonly cited as the traditional end of the Western Roman Empire, but the actual collapse may have occurred decades later.

Described in the New Testament of the Bible and other ancient sources, the death of Jesus Christ was a truly agonizing affair. One of the world’s most recognizable images is that of Jesus Christ’s ...

Over the years, more than 20,000 people have vanished in the region between Anchorage, Juneau, and Utqiagvik known as the "Bermuda Triangle of Alaska." ...

After a catastrophic bird strike, pilot Sully Sullenberger landed in the Hudson River on January 15, 2009 — saving everyone onboard.

Thousands lost their homes during the Great Depression, and many ended up in shantytowns known as Hoovervilles, sarcastically named after President Hoover.