Jonestown, the site in Guyana where more than 900 followers of cult leader Jim Jones died in a mass murder-suicide in 1978, ...

Other, lesser-known towns were often just as raucous as Tombstone and Deadwood. Jerome, Arizona, for example, was once called ...

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

The often flimsy shanties required constant maintenance. "Hooverville is a colony of industrious men, the most of whom are busy trying to hold their heads up and be self-supporting and respectable," ...

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, ...

From the mountainous region's first European settlers to the coal miners who performed backbreaking labor for low wages, the people of Appalachia have long been known for their destitution — and their ...

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 ...

Since the Great Depression, Skid Row in Los Angeles has been infamous for its condensed homeless population, poverty, and crime. Los Angeles is known for its sunny beaches and Hollywood stars. But the ...

Most historians agree that Plato used the story of the lost city of Atlantis as a cautionary tale, an entirely fabricated allegory illustrating how easily a utopian society could fall from grace.

According to legend, Rome was first established in 753 B.C.E. by the twin brothers Romulus and Remus, who were the sons of Mars, the god of war. As the city grew in size and power, Rome eventually ...

What The Children At The Ariel School Saw The Ariel School Phenomenon unfolded on Sept. 16, 1994, in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, a community so small that it was sometimes described as more of a crossroad than a ...

They feared his growing power, and Jesus reportedly sensed that leaders in the predominantly Jewish Roman province of Judaea (present-day Israel and Palestine) would soon want him dead. “Jesus began ...