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.

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

At the end of April 1975, "White Christmas" suddenly blasted through the streets of Saigon, Vietnam. This was a signal to Americans that the evacuation of the city had begun. With that, so did the ...

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 ...

It's also important to note that thalassophobia is distinct from a general fear of water, which is known as aquaphobia. Those with aquaphobia struggle with more common things like taking showers and ...

At the time, Italian food wasn’t widely known in the U.S., and all of the nicer restaurants served French cuisine. So, when Ettore Boiardi started serving up his Italian recipes, customers noticed.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Discover the real story of Griselda Blanco, the Colombian drug trafficker known as the "Cocaine Godmother" who ruled the Miami underworld in the 1970s and '80s. Known as the “Cocaine Godmother” and ...