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.

Go inside the incredible triumphs and heartbreaking tragedies of Golden Age Hollywood's most iconic actresses — pictured in stunning color.

From 1934 to 1946, the NKVD terrorized and murdered countless Soviet citizens who were accused of being disloyal to Joseph Stalin.

While tickling may elicit laughter, "tickle torture" has been used as a tactic to interrogate, abuse, or humiliate victims for centuries.

Linda Napolitano claimed that three aliens abducted her from her Manhattan apartment and beamed her into their ship on November 30, 1989. Her story was allegedly corroborated by 23 witnesses — but ...

In 79 C.E., Mount Vesuvius violently erupted in southern Italy, destroying the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum with pumice and ash.

While the Los Angeles Mafia never rose to the same notoriety as its counterparts in New York and Chicago, the crime family infiltrated Hollywood, had a hand in the growth of Las Vegas, and terrorized ...

The fall of the Mongol Empire in 1368 came after failed military campaigns, external rebellion, and infighting between the four khanates over succession.

Sometime before his death in 19 B.C.E, Latin poet Albius Tibullus described Rome as the “Eternal City” in an elegy. And for hundreds of years, that phrase — Roma urbs aeternus est — rang especially ...

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.