The HMS Terror set out in May 1845 as part of the search for the Northwest Passage, but the ship became trapped in ice, where its crew died of disease, starvation, and cannibalism.

After more than two years on their trail, authorities from three countries successfully caught a group of eight smugglers bringing thousands of looted artifacts into the United Kingdom.

Born in 1982 while her dad was on death row, Rose Bundy — Ted Bundy's daughter with Carole Ann Boone — never had a shot at normal life.

On November 7, 1980, Steve McQueen died of a heart attack after undergoing surgery to remove numerous cancerous tumors in his abdomen and neck.

A centuries-old interrogation method, Chinese water torture was actually invented far from Asia and eventually evolved into far crueler forms of punishment.

Five-year-old Robert Turner of Detroit watched as his mother Sherrill died from a heart condition in February 2006 — all because two 911 operators thought his desperate calls for help were a prank.

Lyle and Erik Menendez claimed their mother was a neglectful drunk — and so in August 1989, they got revenge on her and their father.

Read the harrowing stories from people who escaped some of history's most infamous cults.

Before the Inca conquered the Chimú, the coastal Peruvian civilization built the largest mud-brick city in the world. They also partook in the ritualistic mass sacrifice of children.

Rarely found in the Southern Hemisphere, amber can preserve ancient organisms exactly as they were millions of years ago.