After the April 1986 nuclear disaster, a 30-kilometer zone around Chernobyl was completely abandoned. This is what it looks like today.

First devised at the University of Tennessee, body farms have become invaluable research facilities for everyone from scientists to law enforcement officials.

The all-female members of the Soviet's 588th Night Bomber Regiment painted their planes with flowers and attacked Nazi forces across the Eastern Front.

Take a peek inside Stanley Hotel, the haunted Colorado resort that inspired Stephen King's The Shining — if you dare.

Ted Bundy described himself as "the most cold-hearted son of a bitch you'll ever meet." His crimes certainly prove that statement true.

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.

Despite Adolf Hitler's anti-drug rhetoric, Nazi Germany used a little courage pill called Pervitin to take Europe by storm. It turns out it was pure methamphetamine.

On D-Day, more than 160,000 Allied troops converged on a single stretch of coastline to begin the Normandy invasion — and turn the tide of World War II.

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.

From raising chickens to racing Cobras, Carroll Shelby's high-octane life led him from East Texas to global fame.

With more than half a million dead in just four years, the Civil War was America's bloodiest conflict and the first to be extensively documented through photography.