Chuck Wepner may have lost his fight against Muhammad Ali for the heavyweight championship title in March 1975, but the heated boxing match influenced Sylvester Stallone to write the screenplay for "Rocky."

"The Beam" raises visitors up about 12 feet and spins them around for a gorgeous, panoramic view of New York City.

Safina Namukwaya became one of the oldest women ever to give birth after she was "mocked" for being childless.

The site is 6,500 years old and could hold as many as 200 graves — but any evidence of human skeletons has disappeared.

Thalassophobia is a primal fear that likely stems from humans' innate anxiety about the unknown — and myths about everything from Atlantis to the Loch Ness monster testify to how long people have suffered from it.

The Collyweston Palace estate belonged to Lady Margaret Beaufort, grandmother to King Henry VIII.

DNA analysis showed that the new moth discovered in Ealing, West London was a perfect match for an unnamed species found in Western Australia in 1886.

The bomb was likely used in pre-World War I naval tests sometime between 1880 and 1890.

Beginning in March 2003, U.S. troops carried out a dozen missions in an effort to locate Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein — but nine months passed before they finally found him hiding in a tiny hole near a rural farmhouse.

From Scotland's Glencoe Massacre to the Lee-Peacock rivalry of the Old West, these historical family feuds led to violent bloodshed.

The work is the largest floor mosaic ever uncovered in Turkey's Central Anatolia Region.