In 1766, Jeanne Baret secretly joined the first French naval voyage around the world by pretending to be a cabin boy.

Despite its monstrous jaws and teeth, the wolf eel is actually a gentle giant that’s even known to cuddle with divers.

Mark Kilroy was a University of Texas student on spring break in March 1989 when he was tortured and murdered by Adolfo Constanzo’s cult in Matamoros, Mexico.

Standing on a tiny island in Lough Key in Ireland, McDermott’s Castle has a rich and eerie history that dates back to the 12th century.

Until the foundation of Alexandria, Thônis-Heracleion served as Ancient Egypt's largest port city on the Mediterranean Sea, where Greek merchants dominated trade.

One of only 10 of its kind ever found, this ancient stone marked the spiritual, military, and political boundary of the ancient city of Rome.

On November 6, 2005, Karls Monzon and another masked gunman stormed into a warehouse at Miami International Airport and stole $7.4 million in a matter of minutes — in broad daylight.

In 1903, Parisian police clerk Alphonse Bertillon became the first to photo document a crime scene. Years earlier, he streamlined the use of mugshots, effectively revolutionizing detective work all with a camera.

The soldier was conducting a training exercise with American paratroopers stationed at Camp Roberts in California when he crashed into the kitchen of an empty house.

From archaic toilet paper to moats made of feces, using the bathroom in the Middle Ages was no picnic.

Villagers in Mečenčani and Borojovići are finding their homes threatened by enormous, unpredictable sinkholes following December's 6.4-magnitude earthquake.