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 ...

On this day in history, terrorist attacks devastate London, the Roswell incident sparks UFO paranoia, and Lincoln assassination conspirator Mary Surratt is executed.

After 74 years, the Soviet Union collapsed and broke into 15 countries on December 25, 1991, when Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president following years of internal conflict.

The allure of Prince’s music was undeniable. After skyrocketing to success in the 1980s thanks to his unique musical talents and provocative onstage presence, Prince cemented himself as one of the ...

Marie-Thérèse, Louis-Joseph, Louis-Charles, and Sophie were the four children of Marie Antoinette, but only one survived to adulthood.

Thousands lost their homes during the Great Depression, and many ended up in shantytowns known as Hoovervilles, sarcastically named after President Hoover.

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, ...

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 ...

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.