Today, New Zealand is all that remains of the lost continent of Zealandia — but 30 million years ago, it was a verdant landscape filled with volcanoes and teeming with life.

From her love affairs with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony to her powerful army to her savviness as a politician, go inside the real story of Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII.

The Guyanese company Wanderlust Adventures GY is offering the Jonestown Memorial Tour, a $750 experience that allows visitors to see a replica of the original welcome sign, the memorial plaque that was installed in 2009, and the few small ruins of vehicles and machinery that were left behind.

Archaeologists digging at the Khalkajar archaeological site in Tajikistan just uncovered an ancient water jug labeled with the name of its owner: "This water jug belongs to the woman Sagkina."

Joseph and Summer McStay and their two young sons mysteriously disappeared in 2010, but when their bodies turned up in the Mojave Desert three years later, investigators discovered they'd been bludgeoned to death the very day they vanished.

From 1969 to 1977, as many as 120 men, women, and children lived in treehouses on the North Shore of Kauai in a free love community known as Taylor Camp — but locals complained of the wild parties, drug use, and clothing-optional lifestyle that flourished at the commune.

According to ancient historians, Julius Caesar boasted, "Veni, vidi, vici," or, "I came, I saw, I conquered," after easily defeating the Pontic army at the Battle of Zela in 47 B.C.E.

Researchers believe that they've located the wreck of the Nossa Senhora do Cabo, a Portuguese ship that was carrying $138 million worth of treasure when it was attacked by pirates in 1721.

The woman had lighter skin than other hunter-gatherers who lived in Western Europe at the time, revealing that Stone Age humans in the area had a wider range of skin tones than scientists previously believed.

From Deadwood, South Dakota to Arizona's "wickedest town in the West," these 19th-century mining settlements were once home to gambling halls, brothels, and some of the frontier's most lawless characters.