Roopkund Lake is a five-day hike from the closest village, but it is filled with the skeletons of hundreds of people, and nobody knows how they got there.

After burning hundreds of Protestants at the stake in the mid-1500s, Queen Mary I of England became known as "Bloody Mary" — and a chilling legend was born.

In China from the 10th century until 1905, those convicted of crimes like high treason and mass murder could be sentenced to death by lingchi, a gruesome execution method in which victims were cut apart piece by piece until they died.

Over the centuries, hundreds of cases of spontaneous human combustion have been reported around the world. But is it actually possible?

A Japanese tradition dating to the 11th century, Sokushinbutsu is a years-long process where Buddhist monks slowly mummify themselves before death.

In a pinch, 19-year-old party girl Caresse Crosby invented the bra and changed women's wear forever.

Known as the immortal jellyfish, Turritopsis Dohrnii's can live forever — and scientists are working to see if they can apply its properties to humans.

From chimps to sharks to hamsters, these cannibal animals kill and eat their own for a variety of disturbing reasons.

From her actual name to the full details of her grisly end, these are the Joan of Arc facts that most people don't know.

These raucous photos from the world of women's wrestling of decades past reveal just how brutally beautiful the sport could be.

Discover the shockingly literal and thoroughly disturbing 18th-century medical origins of the idiom "blowing smoke up your ass."