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 ...

First opened in 1970 and shut down in 2011, the Élan School was the "last resort" for parents of teens with behavioral problems — and allegedly a site of systemic abuse. For some, the idyllic woods 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." ...

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.

The Sea Peoples terrorized Egypt and the Mediterranean during the Bronze Age, but their identity and origins remain mysterious to this day.

According to centuries-old Mexican and Tejano folklore, La Lechuza is a bloodthirsty, shapeshifting owl with the face of an old witch known as a bruja.

Forty years before the British fought the Nazis, they used history's first concentration camps to commit genocide during the Boer War.

The heart attack gun fired a dart made of frozen shellfish toxin that would enter the target's bloodstream and kill them in mere minutes without leaving a trace. In 1975, more than 30 years of almost ...

It was one of the most iconic photos of the Vietnam War. At the height of the 1968 Tet Offensive, while prisoners were being rounded up in Saigon, General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan casually strolls over to a ...

Hashima Island was a major part of Japan's manufacturing revolution, but today, the abandoned island is an embodiment of nature taking over an industrial haven.

In 1900, the lighthouse keepers on a remote Scottish island vanished. The official report called it an accident. But suspicious clues – and a puzzling logbook – point to a darker explanation.