These photos capture the music icon as the show-stopping star that he was.

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You may know classic Beatles songs like "Hey Jude" or "Yesterday" by heart, but you'll still be surprised to learn the incredible stories behind how they were written.

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Ever since 1969, Jim Bishop has singlehandedly constructed Bishop Castle, which is the largest self-built palace in the United States — and may be the largest self-built architecture project in the entire world.

Like the insects but not the dirt you have to enter to discover them? These damselfly photos bring nature's surprises right to you.

In 1993 at a Pizza Hut in Florida, seven teens plotted to kill Bobby Kent and never looked back.

During the counterculture era, a tiny Indian state became home to European and American hippies who wanted to flee the West.