"Anglo-Saxon crosses of this kind are exceptionally rare, and only one other — much less elaborate — is known from the ninth century."

When a resident of Ailuk saw an abandoned boat in the waters, he tried to carry it ashore. Oddly enough, it was far heavier than it looked — with 1,430 illegal reasons why.

Tommy Thompson was paid to recover the treasure left behind in a 19th-century shipwreck. But when he refused to pay up, he was put behind bars.

Discover the nightmarish stories behind these eerie abandoned hospitals, from the West Virginia lobotomy lab to the radioactive clinic in Chernobyl.

The witness whose testimony sealed Walter Forbes' fate admitted to her lies in 2017, saying that two local men had threatened to harm her and her family if she didn't identify Forbes as the arsonist.

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

From New Guinea's poisonous hooded pitohui to the spine-snapping beak of the African shoebill, hope you never cross paths with these scary birds.

With no children with whom to leave her fortune, Renate Wedel thought it best that her community become her legacy.

The victims were discovered when one of the father's clients called in a potential gas leak, fearing for the family.

"Eventually, we'd like to make armies of microrobots that could perform a complicated task in a coordinated way."

The birds would normally have migrated south by now, but milder temperatures have kept them in town.