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, ...

Military facilities have existed at Montauk since 1796, when the Montauk Lighthouse became operational and its personnel began looking out for British ships that might attack New York or Boston. The ...

Join us for the History Uncovered podcast, where we explore the uncharted corners of the natural world and the world past. Each Wednesday, we take a deep dive into a topic we haven’t been able to stop ...

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 ...

In 1991, the Bonanno family regained their seat on the Commission when Massino was appointed boss following Rastelli’s death. Massino took an isolationist approach to running the family, shutting down ...

While the other gangs in the Five Families date back to before the Castellammarese War, the Colombo family didn’t come about until 1928. Then, Joe Profaci put together a bootlegging gang that would ...

Other interesting people who were also inventors include Jack Parsons, the occultist who invented rocket fuel; Martin Couney, the sideshow performer whose exhibit saved hundreds of premature babies; ...

They also developed cuneiform, one of the earliest known systems of writing in human history. In addition, they came up with a method of keeping time — which modern people still use to this day. But ...

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 ...

Discover the most enthralling mythical creatures from folklore and fairy tales — and learn about the legends that inspired them. Fantastical creatures have captured the human imagination since the ...

When America was "discovered" by Italian explorer Christopher Columbus in 1492, Viking navigators had already landed on the New World's shores centuries before. The question of who discovered America ...

Though the Kraken has long been a fixture in Scandinavian lore, one of the first descriptions of the beast in writing came from Francesco Negri. An Italian priest and travel writer, Negri described ...