The nuclear shadows of Hiroshima were scorched into the city by the blinding light of the atomic bomb as it detonated over the city on August 6, 1945.

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.

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.

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

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?

The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum was supposed to be a place of peace and restoration, but it soon devolved into madness and mayhem — and the spirits of tormented patients allegedly still haunt its halls today.

On June 10, 1912, all eight people inside the Moore family's house in Villisca, Iowa — including two adults and six children — were murdered by an axe-wielding assailant.

Silphium was incredibly popular as a contraceptive, but it supposedly also helped to prevent disease and make food taste better.

Suffering from a condition that caused his body to accumulate excessive amounts of fluid, Jon Brower Minnoch weighed up to 1,400 pounds and died at just 41 years old.