Remember Heelys? Those sneakers with a removable wheel in the heel that kids, teens, and young adults used to glide around on? Here's what happened to them.
More than a century after it was founded, the Boy Scouts of America found itself at the center of one of the largest sex abuse scandals in American history.
Wine fraud is a surprisingly common racket that dates back as least as far as the ancient Roman Empire. Here are a few of history's most notorious wine scams.
Salvador Dali created some of the most famous surreal paintings in the world, replete with running themes, including images of something he feared most in life.
If you trace modern alien conspiracies to their roots thousands of years ago, you'll find a pantheon of gods worshipped by multiple ancient civilizations.
Bettie Page was one of the most popular pin-ups in the 1950s, but controversy forced her into obscurity. From start to finish, her life was full of tragedy.
Vibrating beds were popular to the point of being frequent pop culture references in the mid-to-late 20th century. Here's why you rarely see them anymore.
Long considered a taboo in many cultures, inbreeding can cause a range of health ailments that may span generations. Sometimes this can be taken to extremes.
The brutal and inhumane apartheid regime held an iron grip on South Africa in the '50s. Some brave souls peacefully resisted, and ended up on trial for treason.
RMS Titanic Inc. owns the exclusive salvage rights to one of the most famous shipwrecks in history - and it's clashing with the government over its plans.
The Boy Scouts of America have been around for more than a century, and the Mormon church was an early adopter of the program before severing ties in 2019.
The public has had a morbid fascination with serial killers, but few people have managed to put some of the most dangerous murderers on the planet behind bars.
Sherman's March to the Sea was a campaign that occurred near the end of the Civil War, led by Union General William Sherman. But this wasn't a typical campaign.
Democratic President John F. Kennedy left a lasting legacy, but did you know he suffered from severe health issues throughout his life? Let's take a look.