On November 18, 1978, Jim Jones instructed over 900 members of the Peoples Temple to take their own lives by drinking poison — and forcing anyone who resisted at gunpoint.

Though many believe that he was killed by the Mafia, Jimmy Hoffa's body has never been found and the truth about what happened to him remains a mystery.

The most opulent airship of its day, the Hindenburg was destroyed when it burst into flames without warning and crashed in New Jersey on May 6, 1937.

The Harlem kingpin who inspired "American Gangster," Frank Lucas began importing and distributing "Blue Magic" heroin in the late 1960s — and made a fortune.

From baby cages to glowing tires to bicycle roller skates, these weird inventions of decades past simply never made a splash.

Turn-of-the-century photos of conditions that were once considered normal.

The bloody story of the Battle of Blair Mountain, America's largest armed insurrection since the Civil War.

Chilling images that reveal how and why the Nazis came to power.

From pianos to cars to planes, no object was too big for these men.

Rarely-seen images from their courtship to their wedding to their honeymoon and all the way to the White House.

Weegee's striking crime scene photos that captured "the details and drama, the humor and the horror, along the city’s streets."