Other, lesser-known towns were often just as raucous as Tombstone and Deadwood. Jerome, Arizona, for example, was once called "the wickedest town in the West" because of its proliferation of bars, ...

After Jesus Christ was crucified outside the city of Jerusalem, the Gospel of John states that his body was placed in “a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid.” But where was this tomb? Where ...

Scholars are currently locked in a heated debate over the number of penises depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry. In 2018, University of Oxford’s Professor George Garnett counted 93 individual genitalia on ...

According to legend, Rome was first established in 753 B.C.E. by the twin brothers Romulus and Remus, who were the sons of Mars, the god of war.As the city grew in size and power, Rome eventually ...

Earth has seven continents: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. At this moment in history, that is fact, but it wasn’t always the case. Hundreds of millions ...

The Ark of the Covenant is first mentioned in the Book of Exodus, when God instructs Moses to tell the Israelites to build an ark (a chest) out of “acacia wood” that is “two and a half cubits long, a ...

During the Early Modern Period, tickling presented philosophers with a fascinating case study into the nature of pleasure and pain. According to Cabinet magazine, the philosopher Descartes claimed ...

Linda Napolitano’s case sounded like something straight out of science fiction. However, it differentiated itself from other well-known alien abduction stories in that, according to Budd Hopkins, ...

The story of the 79 C.E. Mount Vesuvius eruption actually began about 300,000 years ago, when the volcano first began to form. In the millennia leading up to the destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum ...

While the Los Angeles Mafia never rose to the same notoriety as its counterparts in New York and Chicago, the crime family infiltrated Hollywood, had a hand in the growth of Las Vegas, and terrorized ...

If any organized crime group were to embody the core tenets of the mob, the Gambino family would be a sure bet. As one of the “Five Families” of New York City, the Gambino crime family played a ...

Leo Tanguma's murals at Denver International Airport weren't supposed to be controversial — but fate had other plans. Denver International Airport has an odd history as the source of countless ...