Fond of playing his bagpipes before charging into battle with his broadsword and longbow in hand, Lt. Col. "Fighting Jack" Churchill was a soldier unlike any other.

The embalmed body of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin has been preserved inside a glass case at his mausoleum in Moscow since his death in 1924.

On May 13, 1985, Philadelphia police bombed the MOVE group's home and killed 11 people — then allowed the fire to burn 61 surrounding homes to the ground.

Though Albert DeSalvo confessed to murdering 13 women in the early 1960s, some believe that the "Boston Strangler" was really multiple serial killers.

Ambergris is a waxy substance sometimes found in the digestive system of a sperm whale — and it can be worth millions.

One of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the Colossus of Rhodes stood for just 54 years until it was destroyed — and its true location remains a mystery.

On January 15, 1947, 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short was found brutally murdered in Los Angeles — with her body cut in half and a ghastly smile carved into her face.

Go inside the fascinating story of British archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter and how he found King Tut's tomb.

At the age of 13, Myra Gale Brown wedded 22-year-old Jerry Lee Lewis in Hernando, Mississippi — a marriage that would effectively destroy Lewis' career.

As John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas, a woman wearing a headscarf looked on from the grassy knoll. To this day, the identity of the "Babushka Lady" remains a mystery — and the source of dozens of conspiracy theories.

In November 1963, President Kennedy was shot and killed as his motorcade passed in front of the "Umbrella Man." Did this shadowy figure conspire in the President's assassination?