Three years in a freezing lake turned a woman’s flesh to soap, but her thug husband didn’t get away with his crime
St Edward’s Church, Stow-on-the-Wold, praised for its architecture, wins special attention for a door that some believe inspired J. R. R. Tolkien
Golden Girl Bea Arthur was a truck-driving Marine during WWII
“The House of the Rising Sun” has an Incredible History Going back Centuries
Silent Film Star Colleen Moore Created the Most Exquisite Miniature Dollhouses
The Lost Art of Fore-Edge: The “Disappearing Painting” on the Edge of a Book
John Muir, the Father of National Parks, set out to walk 1,000 miles to heal his soul after nearly going blind
The buff WWII-era feminist icon Rosie the Riveter was actually a tiny telegraph operator who’d never been near a factory
Steampunk triumphs in the Neverwas Haul, a Victorian house on wheels inspired by science fiction novels
A group of rogue Arizona cowboys dug up a dead friend in 1905 to give him one last shot of whiskey
