Some of the oldest places in America everyone should visit
Roger Fenton, the very first war photographer, captured the grim reality of the Crimean War
Vulture City, once home to Arizona’s most productive gold mine, ended up a ghost town
More than 30 years before “Star Wars,” Sir Alec Guinness was a WWII landing craft hero
Hubris indeed: Everyone pleaded with “the Flying Tailor,” Franz Reichelt, not to jump off the Eiffel Tower in that parachute of his own design
Partying, Neolithic-style: A new study finds the earliest traces of wine-making in country of Georgia in roughly 6000 BC
“The Wealthiest Woman in America” was so stingy she took her injured son to a free clinic and so paranoid that she slept holding a gun, a chain of bank-deposit keys around her waist
The Terror of South China: Madame Ching was a prostitute who became a highly successful, feared pirate captain
For three months in 1964, Vladimir Nabokov wrote down his dreams every morning, pursuing a theory that time flows backward
Kirk Douglas turning 101, a Hollywood icon who plays tough guys but is a soft-hearted philanthropist offscreen
