Imagine receiving a fine or facing jail time simply because a family member passed away.

On May 8, 1993, a New York City transit dispatcher handed the controls of an eight-car subway train to a man he believed was a 25-year-old motorman.

If you were a pickpocket working the crowded sidewalks of New York City in the 1930s, your worst nightmare didn’t wear a police uniform.

On March 17, 1953, the United States broadcast a live nuclear explosion on national television for the very first time.

On a cold Friday morning in January 2007, one of the most famous classical musicians on the planet stood next to a trash can inside a busy Washington, D.C. subway station.

In 1140, an army surrounded a German fortress with orders to crush the town and lock up every man inside.

On 25 January 2006, bailiffs forced entry into a bedsit flat above Wood Green Shopping City in North London to repossess the property over £2,400 in unpaid rent.

Human burial practices have evolved significantly over centuries, moving from traditional ground interments to modern innovations.

In eighteenth and nineteenth-century Europe, wealthy landowners transformed their expansive estates by hiring real-life humans to serve as ornamental garden hermits.

On December 8, 1941, one day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, an elected official in Washington, D.C., locked herself inside a Capitol cloakroom telephone booth to escape an angry mob of reporters and citizens.