The dark web allows users to privately purchase drugs, contraband, weapons, and pretty much anything else with anonymity. Gary Van Ryswyk used it to castrate people in his home.

Wordsmith, wit, and secret masochist Samuel Johnson overcame a host of ailments and financial struggles to write his masterpiece, A Dictionary of the English Language.

Jeremiah Button even had a bike-powered generator for those overcast days when his solar panels weren't doing the trick.

Captain Anatoly Botsanenko launched his letter into the Soviet sea in 1969. Fifty years later, an Alaska man found it while looking for firewood.

The study looked at 1,241 venues in 78 countries on all continents. Seventy-five percent broke basic mistreatment rules.

The farmers wanted to increase the fertility of their own pigs as Danish hogs produce more pigs per litter, but in so doing, they ran the risk of introducing Australian pigs to foreign diseases like pig plague.

Thailand's in the middle of its worst drought in 10 years. The silver lining? A long-hidden temple has reemerged.

Jimmy Aldaoud lived in America legally from the age of six months. Then ICE deported him to Iraq, a place he had never been before — effectively leaving him to die.

The RMS Lusitania had recently departed New York when it was fatally torpedoed by a German U-boat. Unknown to the passengers on board, however, were 173 tons of weaponry bound for war.

The Chernobyl Spirit Company has three goals: utilize the exclusion zone, stimulate local economies, and make safe, delicious vodka.

Spartacus led the biggest slave rebellion Rome had ever seen — but his motivations may not have been so noble.