After 20 years of bloodshed, the Vietnam War came to a chaotic end on April 30, 1975, when North Vietnamese forces stormed the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon.

Legend holds that the lost city of Rungholt was swallowed by the ocean in 1362 as punishment for its inhabitants' sins.

Deep-sea recovery group Magellan combed through hundreds of thousands of images to build the digital recreation of the doomed ship that revealed the necklace.

Morris Wortman, 72, was facing multiple lawsuits over the fertility fraud when the plane's wings broke apart mid-flight, killing him and his pilot.

On July 2, 1863, Joshua Chamberlain's heroics at the Battle of Gettysburg helped the Union Army emerge victorious.

In 1781, the crew of the British slave ship Zong threw African captives overboard after the ship started running low on supplies on the way to Jamaica.

The trafficker was caught in Miami while trying to transport 29 amazon parrot eggs from Nicaragua to Taiwan.

First caught on camera in 2007, the Fresno Nightcrawler looks like a pair of pants that can move on its own.

The leather saddle, discovered in an ancient cemetery in northwest China, was made between 724 and 396 B.C.E.

Though sources are scant, some claim that the true story of the Muffin Man has to do with a vicious 16th-century serial killer.

On June 23, 1993, Lorena Bobbitt cut off her husband John's penis, leading to a media circus that largely ignored her allegations of marital abuse.