These colorized Old West pictures show the frontier as it truly was, a land of sheriffs, outlaws, Native Americans, boomtowns, and wide-open prairies.

The original versions of childhood films like Sleeping Beauty and The Little Mermaid replace cute animal sidekicks and happily ever afters with bloodshed and betrayal.

The English nursery rhyme "London Bridge is Falling Down" seems innocent on the surface, but some scholars believe it's a reference to immurement — the medieval punishment where a person is locked inside a room until they died.

In 1986, Pennsylvania state treasurer Robert Budd Dwyer was convicted of bribery charges — then he shot himself in front of television cameras a few months later.

With theories ranging from an avalanche to katabatic wind, researchers may have finally solved the Dyatlov Pass Incident that left nine Soviet hikers dead in February 1959.

Lepa Radić was hanged in February 1943 for resisting the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia, and some of her final words from the gallows were, "Do not surrender to the evildoers!"

These unforgettable stories of Titanic survivors capture the bravery, horror, and grief of the disaster that left more than 1,500 people dead in the North Atlantic in April 1912.

Also known as the Lebedenko Tank or the Netopyr, the Tsar Tank was supposed to give Russia the edge during the Great War — but the tricycle-like behemoth failed its field tests miserably.

The Peshtigo Fire of 1871 killed up to 2,500 people, yet it was largely overshadowed by the more famous Great Chicago Fire, which occurred on the same night.

The Soyuz 11 space mission was supposed to be the Soviets' big answer to the U.S. Moon landing, but it ended in tragedy when three cosmonauts returned to Earth dead on June 30, 1971.