Starting on November 23, 1966, New York City was plagued by three days of suffocating smog in what remains one of the worst air pollution episodes and environmental disasters in American history.

Perhaps no pagan deity was as reviled as Moloch, a god whose cult reportedly sacrificed children in a furnace set inside the belly of a bronze bull.

The Vinland Map, formerly dated to the 15th century, was believed to be the oldest European depiction of the Americas.

Fort Worth police said Jason Alan Thornburg admitted to killing three people in a motel room, chopping up their bodies, throwing their corpses into a dumpster, and setting the dumpster on fire.

From the "Alaskan Avenger" who attacked pedophiles with a hammer to the "Revenge Mother" who fatally shot her daughter's killer in the middle of his trial, discover some of the most shocking true stories of vigilante justice.

"Rome has been invaded by Gauls, Visigoths and vandals over the centuries. Now it's facing a new menace: entire families of rubbish-greedy wild boars."

Experts blame public urination on the high levels of drugs in Whitelake River, which runs through the festival grounds.

Félix Ismael Rodríguez spent his life as a special agent with the CIA fighting communism in Central and South America — and got his hands very dirty along the way.

Uncovered in the ancient city of Chilca, these bodies were buried with a wealth of funerary offerings, including food, shells, and a variety of musical instruments.

When a deadly epidemic hit the remote town of Nome in the winter of 1925, a group of mushers and sled dogs risked their lives to save the town — with Balto standing out from the pack.

A centuries-old tradition of whale hunting in the Faroe Islands has horrified activists— after more than 1,400 dolphins were slaughtered in one day.