Other, lesser-known towns were often just as raucous as Tombstone and Deadwood. Jerome, Arizona, for example, was once called "the wickedest town in the West" because of its proliferation of bars, ...

After Jesus Christ was crucified outside the city of Jerusalem, the Gospel of John states that his body was placed in “a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid.” But where was this tomb? Where ...

According to legend, Rome was first established in 753 B.C.E. by the twin brothers Romulus and Remus, who were the sons of Mars, the god of war.As the city grew in size and power, Rome eventually ...

In most Christian churches across the West, the Virgin Mary is portrayed with light skin, much like her son Jesus Christ. But an estimated 400 to 500 versions of the Madonna portray her with dark skin ...

The most obvious theory about why people believed in dragons is also the most straightforward: dinosaurs. As BBC’s Science Focus magazine reports, people across Europe and Asia have historically ...

Linda Napolitano’s case sounded like something straight out of science fiction. However, it differentiated itself from other well-known alien abduction stories in that, according to Budd Hopkins, ...

The story of the 79 C.E. Mount Vesuvius eruption actually began about 300,000 years ago, when the volcano first began to form. In the millennia leading up to the destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum ...

Before becoming infamous as the leader of the Manson Family cult, Charles Manson had a troubled early life marked by abuse and frequent run-ins with the law, starting with petty crimes and escalating ...

While the Los Angeles Mafia never rose to the same notoriety as its counterparts in New York and Chicago, the crime family infiltrated Hollywood, had a hand in the growth of Las Vegas, and terrorized ...

From that chaos emerged Kublai Khan, Ögedei’s nephew, who eschewed the more violent methods of his precursors and sought to rule through stability and economic revitalization.. Kublai Khan, however, ...

Scandinavian folklore tells of countless legendary creatures, and one of the most famous is the Kraken. Said to be a squid-like monster capable of destroying entire ships, the Kraken may seem like ...

First described by Plato in his dialogues Timaeus and Critias in 360 B.C.E., the Lost City of Atlantis was a purported civilization near the Strait of Gibraltar that sank into the Atlantic.