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

Her book chronicles the life of Cudjo Lewis, the last surviving slave from the last slave ship to bring Africans to the United States.

Peyote has been used for years by Native American Church members, but for the rest of the world, it's a Class 1 substance and illegal to use.

The station was the most opulent and beautiful that New York had to offer. It was also the most impractical.

Though they call themselves a Catholic sect, hardly any part of the Palmarian Church seems in line with Catholic values.

Though it seems like a taboo subject to most of the general public, the idea behind the hybridization of a human and a chimpanzee isn't that crazy.

With just a few basic supplies and an empty ice chest, Jose Alvarenga survived for over a year at sea by himself.

A lawsuit claims that the nursing home knew of the woman's affliction, and did nothing to stop it.

The pitcher plant might not be as well known as the venus fly trap, but this carnivorous plant is just as carnivorous – perhaps even more so.

In 1954, geologists came across the first recorded case of a meteorite colliding with a human being. Ann Hodges had the unfortunate luck of being that person.