From riots and escape attempts to inmate baseball leagues and a prison band featuring Al Capone, these behind-the-scenes photos reveal what life was really like at Alcatraz.

Constructed in the 14th century, Castle Stalker was controlled by various Scottish clans over its long history, and was later featured in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

The object, which was originally excavated in 1977, dates back to the Copper Age — and it's over 4,000 years old.

Technology has advanced exponentially since the release of the first personal computer in 1974, but these vintage photos capture the time before handheld devices and social media.

Unofficially dubbed the "grue jay," this new bird may be an early example of how the impact of climate change on animals' habitats could lead to other hybrids in the future.

Archaeologists excavating at the Torreparedones archaeological site in Córdoba, Spain recently unearthed a child's doll made out of terracotta sometime between the third and fifth centuries C.E.

The asteroid, 2025 PN7, has seemingly been orbiting the Sun alongside Earth since the 1950s, and it will likely stay on its track for another 60 years before it travels back out into space.

Mike Day was leading a raid against an al-Qaeda hideout in 2007 when he was shot more than two dozen times, and though he recovered physically, he eventually took his own life in 2023.

This rare find at Göbekli Tepe remains mysterious for now, though experts believe it was left there as a votive offering and might thus shed unprecedented light on religious rituals of its era.

From 1942 to 1946, thousands of innocent Japanese Americans were held in internment camps across the United States in an act dubbed a "military necessity" in World War II.