The president was attending a state event at the Japanese prime minister's home when he came down with a case of stomach flu.

Denise Williams' husband's death had been attributed to a boating mishap, alligators, and an accidental drowning for years.

Pope John Paul I's death remains a point of contention even 40 years later.

Drawn on gazelle skin parchment, the Piri Reis Map is based on about 20 other maps, some of which were created by Christopher Columbus.

Shirako, which translates to "white children" in Japanese, is the raw or cooked sperm of the cod fish.

Cherie Currie thought she was getting her big break, but she ended up in the middle of a nightmare.

The sun only has a finite amount of energy, and when it's gone, it's going out in a blaze of glory.

One year after being discovered, the Tapanuli orangutan is already on the brink of extinction.

Based on a 34-million-year-old skull, researchers have discovered that those gentle baleen whales likely used to be much more predatory.

The beer is made from yeast that's at least 220 years old, found in a shipwreck at the bottom of the ocean.

After becoming the temporary home of Ernest Shackleton's fateful Endurance crew, Elephant Island became world-renowned.