From Stalingrad to Gettysburg, this is what the sites of the world's worst battlefields look like then and now.

A decade has passed since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast. What has -- and hasn't -- changed in the Big Easy since?

Persecuted around the world and still subject to discrimination in modern day Europe, we look into the fascinating history of the Gypsy people.

Tucked away in northwest Ethiopia, along a line roughly stretching from Lake Tana to the border of Eritrea, lies the land of Beta Israel. This ancient region was once home to over 150,000 observant Jews, though only around 4,000 remain in the area today, most residents having relocated to Israel...

For most, the Sahara Desert is not a place worth fighting for. Not so if you're one of the Sahrawi people.

Thomas Midgley Jr. was a proponent of technology's capacity for good, but he helped put lead in the air and annihilate Earth's ozone layer.

Ring in the Fourth of July with our specially-selected list of dumb US mistakes!

Tired of letting the Italians have all the fun, Pope Clement V ushered in an era of French papal corruption.

Buying a beat up, awful car is a rite of passage for many in the United States. Hopefully your rolling lemon wasn't one of these.

Saint Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria between 414 and 444, was a leg breaker for Jesus.

Depending on where you live and the crime you've committed, your prison experience will be vastly different from others. Here are some of the strangest.