Centuries-old secret passageways detailed in Leonardo da Vinci's sketches were just found under Milan's Sforza Castle.

The 1904 Olympics were the first to take place in the United States, and they established the tradition of awarding gold, ...

During renovations at St. Andreas Church in Eisleben, workers uncovered 816 coins hidden inside a statue during the Thirty Years' War.

On April 16, 1874, wilderness guide Alfred Packer arrived at the Los Pinos Indian Agency near Gunnison, Colorado, starving, freezing, and, most notably, alone. The five men Packer had been traveling ...

The octagonal-shaped tomb depicts tales with some very grim details, indicating that life definitely wasn't easy at the time.

In the 1970s, Los Angeles was full of rock ‘n’ roll groupies — and wannabe groupies. Many people fantasized about leaving home, following rockstars from city to city, and getting even the faintest ...

The Sac Actun cave system in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula has served as a treasure trove of ancient remains since 2007 when researchers found the skull and bones of a teenage girl who lived in its ...

‘Daddy Hurt Her’: Inside Bonnie Haim’s Chilling 1993 Disappearance — And How Her Son Discovered Her Body 21 Years Later ...

After working with glow-in-the-dark paint containing radium while making watches, the so-called "Radium Girls" developed horrifying symptoms including teeth that fell out and bones that disintegrated ...