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

From back-breaking manual labor to starvation rations, the Soviet Union's gulag camps inflicted horrific abuse upon their 18 million prisoners. During the days of Joseph Stalin, saying one wrong word ...

The real Annabelle doll reportedly committed a series of attacks in the early 1970s before it was confined in the Occult Museum of Ed and Lorraine Warren in Connecticut. She sits in a glass case ...

Called the 'girl in the box,' Colleen Stan's choice to hitchhike led to seven years of excruciating captivity.

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The 1976 Chowchilla kidnapping left 26 children and their school bus driver buried alive until their miraculous escape.

The victim who inspired the AMBER alert system, nine-year-old Amber Hagerman was murdered after being abducted while riding her bike in Arlington, Texas on January 13, 1996.

Simo Häyhä has the most confirmed kills of any sniper on record — and he endured astonishing conditions to earn that title.

Research facilities designed to study human decomposition, body farms leave corpses out to decay so that scientists can analyze the gruesome results.

Gary, Indiana was once a mecca for America's steel industry in mid-20th century. But decades later, it has become a desolate ghost town. Its declining population and abandoned buildings have lent it ...

Centuries after the first wave of the Black Plague killed nearly half of Europe, we are still left wondering how the deadly plague subsided.

Extravagant monuments, spacious parks, modern buildings, and interconnected roads would all seem to indicate a bustling metropolis. But in China, there is an increasing number of uninhabited "ghost" ...