Though John Adams was old and ill when he died, the curious timing of his demise sparked countless unusual theories.

Other, lesser-known towns were often just as raucous as Tombstone and Deadwood. Jerome, Arizona, for example, was once called ...

The Astor family was one of the wealthiest and most powerful American dynasties in the 19th and 20th centuries.

A fertility deity honored by the Hopi and other Southwestern Native American cultures, Kokopelli is depicted as a fun-loving, musically talented prankster god.

After 74 years, the Soviet Union collapsed and broke into 15 countries on December 25, 1991, when Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president following years of internal conflict.

In 927, Athelstan became the first king of England after successfully uniting the Anglo-Saxon and Viking kingdoms in England.

The allure of Prince’s music was undeniable. After skyrocketing to success in the 1980s thanks to his unique musical talents and provocative onstage presence, Prince cemented himself as one of the ...

Marie-Thérèse, Louis-Joseph, Louis-Charles, and Sophie were the four children of Marie Antoinette, but only one survived to adulthood.

Soon-Yi Previn was adopted by Mia Farrow in 1977 and began an affair with Farrow's boyfriend Woody Allen in 1991 when she was 21 years old.

Alexander Hamilton's children with his wife Eliza — Philip, Angelica, James, John, Alexander Jr., Eliza, William, and Philip — each led unique and fascinating lives.

In 1915, Ernest Shackleton and his crew set out on an expedition in the Endurance to become the first team to make a land crossing of Antarctica. Their ship would become stuck in the ice and sink, ...

On a remote Norwegian island inside the Arctic Circle lies Pyramiden, an abandoned coal mining town that once employed hundreds of men from the Soviet Union. In its heyday during the Cold War, this ...