The origin story of Alcatraz's name is a complicated mix of language, a history that dates back to the first Europeans to ...

The origin story of Alcatraz's name is a complicated mix of language, a history that dates back to the first Europeans to ...

The seafarer peoples of the past who mastered the oceans were crucial in laying the foundations upon which civilizations were ...

Some call it “dark tourism”. American wit and travel author PJ O’Rourke dubbed it “holidays in hell”. Visiting places of ...

Ancient Greek sailors, whose sails caught the winds of curiosity and ambition, were among the earliest to venture beyond ...

The Astros lean into Houston's most well-known explorers -- NASA -- with many elements, most prominently the "SPACE CITY" name stenciled ... emerging from the city's famous fog, including its ...

or perhaps proof that a famous explorer met his end in a location that was previously lost to history. At the edge of the Ouachita National Forest, on the side of a mountain, sits a massive stone with ...

AP “The name of Napoleon,” said the French emperor ... to the difficult task of bringing it back online, when new, less famous jails would suffice.

Here we profile 12 of the most famous railroad tycoons in the 1800s and early 1900s who helped shape the modern industry in ...

From Texas' Colleen Hoover to Maine's Stephen King, here are the most famous authors from every state.

Donald Trump's suggestion Canada becomes the 51st state has brought into the spotlight international boundaries that have ...

This famous villain's body was found rotting, was married five times, had 12 affairs, no one came to claim body, did not have job for 18 years, his name was... Meet Amitabh Bachchan’s ‘son ...