WEIRD

It's reportedly been home to a murder, suicide, and Aleister Crowley.

The graceful game was responsible for enough royal deaths to make an executioner jealous.

He was paid 20 cents a day and half a bottle of beer weekly.

The famous museum keeps millions of items from public view, including a 17-foot long beard and a combat vest made for pigeons.

The fishermen of Gloucester, Massachusetts thought they had seen everything. Then they were proved wrong.

Each "ossan" only costs $9 an hour.

Don't expect emergency surgery in Villa Las Estrellas.

Rumors of aliens and the Illuminati aren't going away anytime soon.

Writers used to instill good manners through strange, scary cautionary tales—and some stories were so bizarre it's a wonder the kids that read them turned out OK.

Let's review why and how we've known for at least 2300 years that the Earth is round.

They've been discovered at Roman-era sites, but no one knows what they're for.

In the 1910s, the city of New York demolished the apartment building David Hess owned in order to extend a major thoroughfare. But the city didn't seize the entirety of his land—and he wasn't about to give it up lightly.