Located 500 miles from the North Pole, Alert is a Canadian military and scientific base in the Nunavut territory that hosts a rotating population of roughly 55 people.

Archaeologists have unearthed everything from pottery workshops to cannonballs to a tavern so rife with artifacts frozen in time that experts are calling it "Boston's very own Pompeii."

Once beloved for starring in movies like Peter Pan, Treasure Island, and Song of the South, Bobby Driscoll eventually developed a debilitating heroin addiction, leading to his untimely demise at age 31.

Found at the ruins of the Greek city of Phanagoria, this terracotta mask fragment still shows stunning details from the second century B.C.E., including a perforation that would have held the strap used to secure the mask as well as blue paint around the eye and red coloring in the beard.

As the AIDS epidemic ripped through the U.S. in the 1980s, Stephen Stucker became one of the first celebrities to go public with his diagnosis before succumbing to the disease in 1986.

When Waffle House waitress Tonda Dickerson was tipped a winning Florida lottery ticket in 1999, she thought she would never have to work again. Instead, her entire life was nearly ruined.

Frida Kahlo painted El sueño (La cama) in 1940, and if it brings in more than $44.4 million when it goes up for auction, it will break records.

Though only 20 percent of the Joaquinraptor casali fossil was recovered, it's one of the most complete skeletons of its kind ever found.

The first woman to own and operate a major league team, Marge Schott tarnished her legacy with her frequent use of racial slurs, her antisemitic views, and her apparent admiration of Adolf Hitler.

Martin Turner initially thought the brooch was a child's toy and tossed it into a bag of scrap metal — but then he took a closer look at it.