In the early 1980s, a rock of crack cocaine went for as little as $5. Due to its cheap price and high purity, it spread like wildfire from New York to Los Angeles.

The Spanish-style Colonial Revival house at 12305 5th Helena Drive was the first property Marilyn Monroe ever bought — and her last. She died there just six months after moving in.

To this day, Victorian death pictures remain chilling artifacts of a bygone era that's shocking to modern sensibilities.

From wife selling to mummy unwrapping, these Victorian era facts will make you so glad you live in the 21st century.

After Sarah Hale became the first female magazine editor in America, she used her unique platform to help create Thanksgiving as we know it.

After the whaleship "Essex" was sunk by a vengeful sperm whale, its crew was left on the high seas for 90 days — causing them to resort to cannibalism.

Martin Luther King Jr. once called Chicago the most racist city in America. Here's the long history that proves him right.

While many Americans are taught that the civil rights movement was localized in the South in the 1950s and '60s, the reality is that the struggle was brutal all over the country.

Princess Diana was killed in a car crash while trying to escape paparazzi, but some people think it was no accident.

King Henry VIII lusted after Anne Boleyn for nine years before divorcing his first wife to marry her — then had her executed three years later.

As the civil rights movement brought attention to Black Americans' struggle for equality, whites across the country launched a brutal counter-movement.