The Hermit Kingdom has carefully cultivated their public image: a pastiche of military parades, patriotic songs, and smiling faces. These rare photographs have none of those things; they reveal the harsh realities of life in North Korea.

The Tunguska Event flattened 80 million trees in the area.

He sent a picture of himself holding the grenade, with the pin clearly removed, to a friend.

Praljak was at The Hague along with five other former Bosnian Croat political and military leaders to appeal convictions of war crimes made against them.

From "lobster boy" to the human zoo exhibit, discover the most interesting stories you've never heard.

James Jameson used his power and privilege to do the unspeakable — and get away with it.

The Mawé believe that any boy who wants to become a man must experience the worst pain the jungle has to offer and stick their arm inside the bullet ant glove.

Many of history's most important figures have suffered strange deaths that do not seem to befit their noble legacy.

After the police were called, Edgar Collaguazo attempted to jump down to the ground from his fourth-floor apartment.

''While there are some similarities in the cases, there's also a great number of dissimilarities,'' said an FBI investigator at the time.

The permafrost of Siberia has the perfect conditions to preserve biological specimens for tens of thousands of years.