In 1965, Syd Barrett co-founded Pink Floyd, and the band soon skyrocketed to fame. Barrett was the songwriter behind some of ...

Archaeologists excavating a 2,800-year-old Scythian tomb in the Uyuk Valley discovered evidence of humanity's earliest-known ...

Archaeologists exploring medieval ruins in Qinngua, Greenland have uncovered a Norse church that was built as far back as ...

Opened in the mid-19th century, McSorley's hasn't changed much — and even still serves just two kinds of beer.

Archaeologists excavating at Tavşanlı Höyük in western Turkey found an ancient clay brick that was stamped with the paw print ...

In Celtic mythology, the Cailleach is a powerful goddess associated with winter and storms — but also with creation myths.

As an adult, Judy Lewis learned that her adopted mother, Loretta Young, was actually her biological mother, and that her father was Clark Gable.

For hundreds of years, the Ainu people have lived in northern Japan and southeastern Russia. Culturally and physically different from the Yamato people — Japan’s dominant ethnic group — they have a ...

In June 1984, a nightmare hit the quiet Long Island suburb of Northport, New York. One teenager, Ricky Kasso, had murdered another, Gary Lauwers. Kasso had a reputation as a dropout, a drug user, and ...

Whether it was serial killers prowling the streets or parents killing their children in their own homes, these are some of the most disturbing murders ever committed on Halloween. For many, October ...

Freddy Geas reportedly had a particular disdain for rats — and Whitey Bulger infamously worked as an FBI informant.

Botanist Robert Fortune was commissioned by the East India Trading Company to infiltrate China's tea industry and topple the country's monopoly on the beverage. Second only to water, tea is the ...