By far Gustave Eiffel’s most well-known work, the Eiffel Tower was designed for the 1889 World’s Fair to celebrate the 100th ...

Along with a history of racist wartime propaganda, other forms of hateful posters and political flyers were persistent throughout the 20th century. The infamous white supremacist group Ku Klux Klan ...

Known as the "place of the skull," Golgotha was a hill just outside of Jerusalem's walls where Jesus Christ was said to be crucified.

In the 1970s, hundreds of threatening letters flooded a small Ohio town from an author who claimed to know everyone's secrets.

Over the years, more than 20,000 people have vanished in the region between Anchorage, Juneau, and Utqiagvik known as the "Bermuda Triangle of Alaska." ...

How and why the Liberty Bell cracked is difficult to determine, but there are many theories that explain the origin of the iconic symbol's beloved flaw. Of all the symbols of American independence, ...

According to centuries-old Mexican and Tejano folklore, La Lechuza is a bloodthirsty, shapeshifting owl with the face of an old witch known as a bruja.

According to most crybaby bridge legends, a mother threw an unwanted child off the bridge to its death, and its screams can still be heard to this day.

King Henry VIII famously married six wives all in an effort to produce male heirs, but only one of his legitimate children was a son who survived past infancy.

A 200-square-mile area in southeastern Massachusetts, the Bridgewater Triangle has long been known as a vortex of unexplained phenomena.

Between 1971 and 1973, an unknown serial killer in Rochester, New York strangled three girls who had the same first and last initial in what’s known as the Alphabet Murders.

When 19-year-old Brandon Swanson crashed his car into a roadside ditch near Minnesota West Community and Technical College in 2008, he naturally called his parents for assistance. As he maintained ...