"I was afraid that I wasn't going to be able to participate in life," Erik Weihenmayer remembered thinking after he first went blind at 14. But that's not how things turned out.

Scientists say your body acts and feels 70 years older than it actually is in Everest's high-altitude "death zone." And Min Bahadur Sherchan was already very old.

How Annie Jones attained fame as P.T. Barnum's "Bearded Lady," yet still died little more than a circus "freak" in the eyes of the business that chewed her up.

No one knows why Harriet Cole donated her body to science, but the contribution she made lives on to this day.

The Wineville Chicken Coop Murders rocked a small southern California town in the late 1920s – and led to the hanging of Gordon Northcott.

Throughout the 1950s, atomic detonations brought countless tourists to Sin City — and helped make it what it is today.

After Mariya Oktyabrskaya's husband died in battle during World War 2, she became a tank driver in the Red Army.

"Six Chinese guys made it off the Titanic alive and 24 hours later were written out of the story."

The Inventor of Monopoly Elizabeth Magie designed the game to reveal the dangers of land-grabbing, but we all learned the wrong lesson from it.

George Fitzhugh was a slave-owner and sociologist who had some oddly egalitarian defenses of chattel slavery.