The Ted Bundy enigma: A law student and suicide-hotline volunteer who was a serial killer
Countries that ceased to exist in the 20th century
Bold Invention: The Bartini Beriev VVA-14, a 1970s-era Soviet aircraft designed to take off from the water
Tristan da Cunha is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world
Australian couple Bought a decaying Neoclassical French Chateau and started blogging the restoration process
The grand but flawed 17th century Swedish warship “Vasa” sank on her maiden voyage, but in 1961 the ship was completely recovered
Radium Girls, female factory workers exposed to radium poisoning without their knowledge, were even encouraged to lick radium paintbrushes
The Hope Diamond is thought to carry a curse from Louis XIV to an American heiress
Why America fell in love with joke-filled burlesque in the 19th century, long before it transformed into striptease
The amazing flight of the “Norge,” the airship that took Amundsen on the first-ever journey over the North Pole
