When Mount Vesuvius erupted without warning in AD 79, it showered scorching rock and ash onto the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, transforming them—and their former occupants—forever.

This week, researchers revealed that each hot dog a person eats could take 36 minutes off of their life. Needless to say, Chestnut’s really racking up the hours.

Many of us enjoy kisses from our pups safe in the belief that dogs’ mouths have fewer germs than our own. But how does canine oral cleanliness really stack up to that of humans?

Only a handful of aerialists, including Erin Blaire of New York City, have cautiously and creatively trained to resurrect this classic circus act known as the hair hang.

Over a span of 40 years, late novelty architecture aficionado John Margolies photographed more than 1,000 roadside attractions lining the highways of America.

Were the telegram systems really on the fritz? How did John Wilkes Booth escape the scene? Where is the derringer used in this fatal crime currently located?

Home to 130 volcanoes, a single eruption in Alaska is nothing to write home about. However, when three of them decide to put on a show at the same time, we’re looking at some seriously newsworthy nature!

Now more than ever, scientists and engineers are looking to nature for inspiration when it comes to building better robots.

Not only can Vasilisa effortlessly complete a slalom course while freestyle dancing, but she can also do it on one leg while skating backward in a single-wheel squat.

Before he could deliver any lines in his iconic accent for “Dracula,” he first had to learn how to speak English. As a stage actor, he learned his lines phonetically before ever knowing the language!

Before there was fluffy buttermilk batter topped with sugary syrups and whipped cream, the prequel to pancakes was, well, a bit more… eggy?

Half a century after skyjacker D.B. Cooper leapt out of a Boeing 727, taking $200,000 in cash with him, crime historian Eric Ulis is picking up where the FBI left off in solving this infamous crime.

Ben Franklin’s armonica was becoming a true icon in the music world… until it started wreaking havoc on the minds and bodies of performers and their audiences.

Luke Skywalker’s Lightsaber® was constructed from a 1930s Graflex camera flash tube, complete with glued-on button and circuitry additions.