A concrete dome on Runit Island in the Pacific Ocean contains 111,000 cubic yards of radioactive debris
Inspired by vintage book covers and other unexpected materials, French designer Sylvie Facon creates unique evening gowns
The Glass Harmonica – Listen to Benjamin Franklin’s Greatest Musical Invention
The Wild West era, a period known for cowboys, gunslingers, lawmen, and saloon madames, actually lasted only 30 years
Amelia Earhart’s plane is still missing and no one knows when or how she died, but her 1932 car has been found
Moondyne Joe, the escape artist that no prison could hold, not even a specially designed concrete “escape-proof” cell
Four shark killings in 1916 triggered a tsunami of hysteria that inspired Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster “Jaws”
“Evacuate the children, put up the blackout curtains, kill the cat”: The mass pet killings of 1939
Sentimental Items and Trash Were Left Behind on the Moon’s Surface
There’s gold in them thar jeans: The truth behind the tale of a Chinese laundryman who got rich during the Gold Rush washing miners’ clothes
