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Tucked away among the hills of Northern Lazio in Italy is a garden like no other. Imagine wandering through a lush landscape, turning a...

On 27 March 1977, an otherwise quiet Sunday in Tenerife, Spain's Canary Islands, was shattered by an unprecedented aviation tragedy. Two...

Decades before the FBI Behavioural Science Unit started profiling serial killers, before Ted Bundy’s chilling charm or Jeffrey Dahmer’s...

It’s not often that a woman with a past as a Parisian courtesan finds herself rubbing shoulders with royalty, marrying into Egyptian...

On a mild Saturday afternoon, March 25, 1911, as New Yorkers were finishing their workweek, tragedy ignited in the heart of Manhattan. In...

It sounds like the start of a bad joke: What do you get when you cross a JCB digger, a fake bomb made out of a Fray Bentos pie tin, and...

Before there was Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs , there was Gary Heidnik—a name that became synonymous with one of the most...

When you think of aerial combat, the first things that might come to mind are the dogfights of Spitfires and Messerschmitts or the heavy...

In the final turbulent years of Henry VIII’s reign, when religious reform clashed violently with traditional orthodoxy, one young woman...

In the early morning hours of Halloween, 1968, just off the winding roads of Los Angeles’ storied Laurel Canyon, a housekeeper entered a...

At first glance, the Gothic cottage of Plas Newydd in Llangollen, North Wales, may seem like a quaint remnant of the 18th century. But...

“They took their shot. They muffed it.” It’s not every day that someone gets shot three times in the head—and walks away. But then again,...

In March 1998, 23-year-old Amy Lynn Bradley vanished without a trace from the Rhapsody of the Seas  cruise ship. She had been celebrating...

Saparmurat Niyazov, affectionately self-styled as Türkmenbaşy—or "Head of the Turkmen" if you're feeling formal—was the leader of...

Every era has trends that sweep through society faster than a sock disappearing in the laundry. Among these curious phenomena is 'The...

Marie Fikáčková, born Marie Schmidl, entered the world on 9 September 1936 in Sušice, a picturesque town nestled in what was then...

On a chilly afternoon, February 18, 2001, Robert Hanssen parked his car at Foxstone Park in Vienna, Virginia, a quiet suburb of...

As the doors of Broadmoor slammed shut in 1979, Ronnie Kray—the once feared kingpin of London’s East End—began a new chapter: one of...

In 1917, amid the devastation of World War I, an American sculptor quietly boarded a ship to France, unaware she would soon transform...

Born in July 1900 in Fordon, Bromberg—then part of the German Empire (modern-day Poland)—Max Jacobson became notorious as "Dr. Feelgood,"...

March 15th—otherwise known as the Ides of March—has become synonymous with bad luck, treachery, and political upheaval. In ancient Rome,...

In the bustling streets of Victorian London, amidst the cacophony of street vendors hawking everything from flowers to fresh fish, one...

On 21 November 1974, Birmingham was rocked by two devastating explosions that tore through the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town,...

Before the legendary crooner, before the Rat Pack, before the tumultuous marriages and Hollywood scandals, Frank Sinatra was just another...