Women like Mae Capone and Victoria DiGiorgio Gotti stood behind their gangster husbands for better or for worse.

An eccentric nomad of American legend, Johnny Appleseed was said to plant apple trees throughout the frontier in the 19th century, but how does the history differ from the lore? Some may have learned ...

Yōkai are supernatural beings like kappas, demons, and even haunted household objects that have appeared in Japanese art and folklore for centuries. It’s difficult to define yōkai in simple terms.

Around 104 C.E., Pliny the Younger sat down to write a letter. “Though my shocked soul recoils, my tongue shall tell,” he told the Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus. Then, Pliny began to describe what ...

At first, Aaron Hernandez captivated America because of his astounding feats on the football field. Then, it was the accusation that he’d murdered his acquaintance Odin Lloyd. And finally, it was ...

At a remote temple in Cambodia’s Angkor Wat Archaeological Park, researchers have discovered a large sandstone guardian statue buried just under the dirt. The statue, known as a dvarapala, was still ...

Randy Weaver became a household name in 1992 after federal agents swarmed his remote cabin in Ruby Ridge, Idaho. Weaver, alongside his family, believed that the apocalypse was near, that the U.S.

Pupetta Maresca wasn’t an American mob wife, but she did make a name for herself when she married Pasquale Simonetti, a member of the Italian crime organization known as the Camorra. Assunta Maresca, ...

For centuries, the Lion of Venice has loomed over the Italian city as one of its most famous landmarks. It was long thought that the iconic sculpture originated in Anatolia, but a recent study ...

John Gotti is one of New York’s most infamous mobsters. He frequently made headlines — and right beside him was his wife, Victoria DiGiorgio Gotti. Despite her husband’s notoriety, Victoria Gotti has ...

For years, historians have assumed that cocaine wasn’t widely used in Europe until the 19th century, after the German chemist Albert Niemann figured out how to isolate the drug from coca leaves in ...