By far Gustave Eiffel’s most well-known work, the Eiffel Tower was designed for the 1889 World’s Fair to celebrate the 100th ...

Along with a history of racist wartime propaganda, other forms of hateful posters and political flyers were persistent throughout the 20th century. The infamous white supremacist group Ku Klux Klan ...

On August 6 and 9, 1945, the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing 210,000 people and helping to bring an end to World War 2.

From Nephthys, the ancient Egyptian deity who protected mummies, to the Aztec "Lady of the Dead," who continues to play a role in modern festivals, discover history's most fascinating goddesses of ...

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." ...

Starting in the 16th century, some Italian parents had their sons castrated so that they could become castrati, singers with high-pitched voices.

In 1985, David Brown ordered his 14-year-old daughter Cinnamon to murder her stepmother Linda, claiming that Linda was planning to kill him for his money.

King Henry VIII famously married six wives all in an effort to produce male heirs, but only one of his legitimate children was a son who survived past infancy.

A 200-square-mile area in southeastern Massachusetts, the Bridgewater Triangle has long been known as a vortex of unexplained phenomena.

On September 29, 1978, 15-year-old Mary Vincent accepted a ride from Lawrence Singleton, who then kidnapped her, raped her, and cut off both her arms.

In the 1970s, a serial killer targeted young girls in Rochester, New York who had the same first and last initials.

On March 11, 2011 in Bethesda, Maryland, Brittany Norwood viciously killed her co-worker Jayna Murray over a pair of leggings in what's known as the Lululemon murder.