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.

On Sept. 25, 1988, weeks after she told friends and family members that she planned to break up with her abusive boyfriend, Brenda Sue Schaefer was reported missing. “I don’t think our mother believed ...

Brittany Norwood crushed her co-worker Jayna Murray's skull and severed her spinal cord in a brutal 2011 attack now known as the "Lululemon murder." Lululemon Athletica, the company that sells ...

“Please retweet. I am offering my male genitals (full penis, testes, scrotum) as a meal for 100,000 yen… I will prepare and cook as the buyer requests, at his chosen location.” That was the tweet ...

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 ...