A four-year-old child was once mailed from her parents' home to her grandparents' house which was 73 miles away.

Originally designed to create multiple copies of a single document, the Thomas Edison electric pen would end up revolutionizing the tattoo industry.

The severed mokomokai heads of the Maori were carved, boiled, smoked, oil, and then paraded around like war trophies.

In four years, the Cleveland Torso Murderer killed, dismembered and castrated 12 different victims, and was never identified.

During the London Beer Flood, over 380,000 gallons of beer flowed out of the brewery at high speeds.

“It be awesome. Seriously im going to help her. Its like getting away with murder!"

Without Vincenzo Peruggia's daring Mona Lisa theft operation in 1911, would the iconic painting even be well-known today?

Infamous fake photos from a time before photoshop.

The 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden was attended by 20,000 people.

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and it's still climbing.

The macabre spectacle of the Cadaver Synod was one of the more noteworthy events of the papacy in the Middle Ages.