In 1894, a bizarre story swept across American newspapers about felines thriving in sub-zero temperatures.

During the height of the Cold War, Western intelligence analysts discovered something inexplicable on satellite imagery.

Deep within the wooden hulls of eighteenth-century warships, a highly volatile cargo waited below the waterline.

Assisting a monarch with bathroom hygiene sounds like the absolute lowest position in a household.

In 2005, the CIA looked beyond drones and satellites to fight Al-Qaeda in the Middle East. They turned to the toy aisle.

In the darkest days of World War II, a Spanish chicken farmer decided he needed to do something for the good of humanity.

Rising nearly 600 feet out of the dense Sri Lankan jungle, an enormous column of granite known as Sigiriya, or Lion Rock, holds the remnants of an ancient, violent family feud.

In August 1913, amid a graduating class of nearly 100 new Chicago police detectives, stood a single woman who would soon become famous for kicking down doors in custom gowns while brandishing a tommy gun.

In 564 BC, the ancient Olympic Games hosted a combat sports finale so extreme that the ultimate winner was a dead man.

In 1781, one of the founding fathers of the United States drafted a formal scientific proposal to completely change the odor of human flatulence.