The wreck of the Nossa Senhora do Cabo, a Portuguese treasure ship seized by pirates in 1721, has been identified near ...

Though John Adams was old and ill when he died, the curious timing of his demise sparked countless unusual theories.

After 20 years of bloodshed, the Vietnam War came to a chaotic end on April 30, 1975, when North Vietnamese forces stormed the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon.

In 1915, Ernest Shackleton and his crew set out on an expedition in the Endurance to become the first team to make a land crossing of Antarctica. Their ship would become stuck in the ice and sink, ...

On a remote Norwegian island inside the Arctic Circle lies Pyramiden, an abandoned coal mining town that once employed hundreds of men from the Soviet Union. In its heyday during the Cold War, this ...

Thalassophobia is an intense and persistent phobia of deep bodies of water like oceans, seas, and lakes that can cause symptoms including paralyzing anxiety.

Ettore Boiardi introduced a generation of Americans to spaghetti. His canned ravioli fed millions. And he has one of the most recognizable faces in the food industry. Yet few know the man behind the ...

Appalachia, the socio-economic region that runs through the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States, has both a distinctive culture and history.

First described by Plato in his dialogues Timaeus and Critias in 360 B.C.E., the Lost City of Atlantis was a purported civilization near the Strait of Gibraltar that sank into the Atlantic.

Sometimes called the "Las Vegas of the ancient world," the sunken settlement of Baiae was one of its era's most hedonistic resort towns for wealthy Roman elites. About 150 miles south of Rome, a ...

Colombian drug lord Griselda Blanco built a cocaine trafficking empire in 1970s Miami that flourished until she was finally caught by the DEA in 1985.

A series of 13th-century murals depicting the life of St. Maurille at France's Angers Cathedral have been photographed for the first time.