You Could Own This Idyllic (But Haunted) Ghost Town
Johnsonville is still on the market!
Whether because of inaction, rejection, or pure skullduggery, these 15 of New York City landmarks have been lost forever.
National Arbor Day is the last Friday of April.
In a town in northern Germany, a dark piece of folklore has found new life.
Given its close proximity to Plymouth Rock, it’s hardly surprising that the city of Boston is home to many American “firsts.” From anti-smoking laws to UFO sightings, here are 24 things that originated in Beantown.
Vindolanda, a fort and settlement in Northumberland just south of Hadrian's Wall, has been an unparalleled source of artifacts illuminating daily life.
Born in a tenement on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1873, Al Smith was a self-made man.
Some of China's modern pollution problems started long ago with the invading Mongols.
Anandabai Gopal Joshee was not only the first Indian woman to receive a Western medical degree, but also the first known Hindu woman to travel to America.
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti’s names are associated with one of the most infamous double homicides in American history. But were they guilty? Albert Einstein and a host of other great thinkers didn’t believe so.
Seneca Village was a small but vibrant community founded in 1825 by free working class African-Americans in uptown Manhattan.
For thousands of years, people have buried their treasures to keep them safe from authorities and marauders or as offerings to the gods. Every now and then, someone is lucky enough to find one of these long-lost hoards. Here are seven of the best finds in
A brief history of how we arrived at that number, and who should get credit for it.
The media attention surrounding La Sierra was so intense that by 1962, a health-conscious President Kennedy made an open plea for other schools to get involved.