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 ...

Joey Merlino came of age in an era where the Mafia in Philadelphia was decimated, taking full advantage of the power vacuum to assume control of the family. And in order to reach the underworld, ...

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, ...

Stunning medieval wall paintings inside France’s Angers Cathedral remained hidden for centuries. But now, for the first time, conservators from the University of Cambridge’s Hamilton Kerr Institute ...

Around the same time, the subject of shadow people caught the attention of leading paranormal expert Rosemary Ellen Guiley. Guiley, who had published more than 50 books on the paranormal since she ...

Sometimes called the "Las Vegas of the ancient world," the sunken settlement of Baiae was one of its era's most hedonistic resort towns for wealthy Roman elites. About 150 miles south of Rome, a ...

Located near the border of Oklahoma and Kansas, Picher was a bustling mining center in the early 1900s — but now this abandoned town is surrounded by mountains of toxic waste. In 1913, lead and zinc ...

But recently, on the western edge of what was once Durocortorum, archaeologists discovered the remains of a lavish Gallo-Roman villa. Built during the second century C.E., the villa’s street-facing ...

Between 2008 and 2009, renovations were carried out at Prague Castle’s Vladislav Hall. The castle, built between 1490 and 1502, was the seat of power for the King of Bohemia and served as a frequent ...

Throughout the '80s, actors like Emilio Estevez and Molly Ringwald starred alongside each other in a dozen coming-of-age films like The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire while earning themselves the ...