Named for the author of the Pledge of Allegiance, Francis J. Bellamy, the Bellamy Salute was used from the 1890s until 1942.

"They were all made sacred. Turned into gifts for the gods or even personifications of deities themselves."

Though these abandoned hospitals once saw countless patients pass through their doors for medical treatment, they're now ghostly shells of their former selves.

"We are doing what human beings have always done but we are doing it on an unprecedented scale with materials that are going to take hundreds, if not thousands of years, to biodegrade."

The palace was razed by the Spaniards for materials and used to create a new home for Cortés nearby.

When the noblewoman's tomb was uncovered in 2012, researchers were stumped as to why she had been buried with the beasts of burden.

The right-hand man of Joan of Arc during the Hundred Years' War, Gilles de Rais is best known today as one of history's first documented serial killers.

While working at a prestigious law firm, Alex Murdaugh secretly lived a life of crime, fraud, and corruption — then murdered his wife and son in 2021 to cover it up.

The 50 salvaged cases of cognac brandy and 15 cases of herbal liqueur were originally intended for the aristocracy of Russia.

A murderer and grave robber, Ed Gein collected human body parts to make clothing and household items in his Wisconsin home until he was caught in 1957.