For years, the KGB secretly spied on visitors to the Hotel Viru in Estonia. A new museum reveals the fascinating time capsule and all the secrets within
A new film recreates the epic voyage—and revives the controversy over its legendary leader, Thor Heyerdahl
An 1838 journey pushed back the borders of the unknown
Even before there were armchairs, voracious bookworms traveled the world just by reading
Did he, and other Vikings, really use a brutal method of ritual execution called the "blood eagle"?
Harry Selfridge, a London department store owner, may have opened the doors to more than just his retail store when he gave women a chance to power shop
An American whaling ship brought together an oddball crew with a dangerous mission: freeing six Irishmen from a jail in western Australia
In 1820, one of Britain's most notorious criminals hatched a plan to rescue the emperor from exile on the Atlantic isle of St Helena -- but did he try it?
Why Beethoven, Galileo, Napoleon and others never truly rested in peace
The whaler <i>Essex</i> was indeed sunk by a whale—and that's only the beginning
Pavlichenko was a Soviet sniper credited with 309 kills—and an advocate for women's rights. On a U.S. tour in 1942, she found a friend in the first lady
In 1908, a meteor exploding in mid-air released the energy equivalent to "185 Hiroshima bombs"
Rival towns are vying for the king’s remains and his legacy now that his skeleton has been found 500 years after his death
When was the first-ever rocket built?
In 1978, Soviet geologists prospecting in the wilds of Siberia discovered a family of six, lost in the taiga
For ancient Romans enjoying a day at the bathhouse, the list of items lost to drains includes jewelry, scalpels, teeth, needles and plates
The minister of armaments was happy to tell his captors about the war machine he had built. But it was a different story when he was asked about the Holocaust
How did the tabletop game get from parlor halls in 19th century Europe to the basements of American homes?
Ancient Roman pills, preserved in sealed tin containers on the seafloor, may have been used as eye medicine
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