A tiny secret passage in the Merchant's House Museum, an 1832 rowhouse in Manhattan's East Village, has been linked to the ...

Given the shocking events of her childhood, this is hardly surprising. At the age of five years old, Lina Medina — and her son, Gerardo Medina — became known around the world. But while scientifically ...

Roman ruins dating as far back as the first century C.E. were discovered during excavations in preparation for museum ...

Eleven-year-old Touren Pope was hunting for rocks in southwest Wyoming when he came across the fossil of a soft-shelled ...

Tudor Close in Rottingdean, East Sussex, England, purportedly inspired the mansion in the board game Clue, or Cluedo.

Workers restoring the former house of Russian merchant Averky Kirillov uncovered a trove of silver coins from the Time of ...

When Mauna Loa volcano erupted in November 1935 and threatened the local water supply, officials dropped bombs to divert the ...

The headdress, discovered at the Eilsleben settlement, suggests that Neolithic people traded with Mesolithic hunter-gatherers.

The Brazen Bull, also known as the Bronze Bull, was a brutal torture and execution device allegedly used in ancient Greece. Created in the 6th century B.C.E., it was designed to be a particularly ...

Though police only connected him to three murders, Joseph Roy Metheny claimed to have slaughtered a total of 13 victims, some of whom he allegedly turned into patties that he sold to unwitting ...

In 1845, two ships carrying 134 men set sail from England in search of the Northwest Passage — but they never returned. Now known as the lost Franklin expedition, this tragic journey ended in an ...

“Oh, you’re just blowing smoke up my ass,” is something you might hear someone say when they think you’re just telling them what they want to hear. But in 18th-century England, blowing smoke up your ...