The steps to the Lindy Hop didn't actually include any hopping, but they did jumpstart a fantastical dance craze throughout the Jazz era.

With her insatiable fighting spirit, Kathleen Cleaver went from being a bookish child to a front-lines protestor with the Black Panthers.

The daughter of a cartel leader, Sandra Ávila Beltrán grew up surrounded by piles of cash — and never looked back.

"If I don't get back on my board," Bethany Hamilton said after the attack, "I'll be in a bad mood forever."

After starting out as a Wall Street broker and suffragist, Victoria Woodhull made history in 1872 when she made a presidential run unlike anything the country had ever seen.

Although Frances Perkins was the first woman cabinet member in U.S. history and the principal architect of the New Deal, her story remains widely overlooked to this day.

It's nearly impossible to estimate how many galgo dogs are killed in Spain annually, although experts say it's as many as 100,000.

Local legend holds that La Pascualita is the preserved corpse of the original shop owner's daughter, who died tragically on her wedding day.

Jack Parsons helped invent rocket science itself, but his sordid extracurricular activities caused him to be all but written out of history.

Did 16-year-old Grace Marks of Alias Grace fame actually help murder her employer and his lover — or was she unfairly locked away?

Rat Island may not have rats, but it does have a one-of-a-kind story.