Bombay Beach Back in the 1950s and 60s, Bombay Beach was the hot spot of Southern California. Developers pushed it as “America’s French Riviera,” complete with yacht clubs and luxury resorts. Stars ...

The Georgia Guidestones Bombing The Georgia Guidestones started with ten commandments carved in granite: maintain humanity under 500 million, guide reproduction wisely, unite humanity with a living ...

When four young girls from Salem Village began having mysterious fits in 1692, they accused Bishop of sending her spirit to torment them. She was arrested on April 19, tried on June 2, and hanged on ...

The Ancient Hohokam Between 450 and 1450 CE, the Hohokam turned Arizona’s Sonoran Desert into a farming empire using just stone tools and wooden digging sticks. They carved 700 miles of canals through ...

Etowah Mounds, Georgia Between 1250 and 1325 CE, the Mississippian people transformed a bend in the Etowah River into the Southeast’s most powerful chiefdom. They hauled millions of baskets of earth ...

The Stones Line Up With the Stars Like a Prehistoric GPS Here’s where things get really interesting: the stones are positioned to track the sun and moon throughout the year. Standing stones mark ...

Nevada Lodge No. 4, Nevadaville CO Nevada Lodge No. 4 holds the strange honor of being Colorado’s only ghost town Masonic lodge. Founded by gold miners, it survived a major fire in 1861, the mining ...

The Flight of the Nez Perce The Nez Perce had lost 90% of their homeland to the controversial 1863 “Thief Treaty” that many bands never signed. In 1877, General Oliver Howard gave Chief Joseph’s ...

First Public Announcement of the Discovery J.P. Hedberg, Kensington’s mayor, first shared news about the stone months after Ohman found it. On January 1, 1899, Hedberg sent a copy of the strange ...

The 1925 Serum Run to Nome In January 1925, Dr. Curtis Welch found diphtheria spreading through Nome’s children. The town of 1,400 people had no fresh antitoxin because their supply had expired five ...

The Battle of Oriskany The American Revolution tore apart the mighty Iroquois confederacy on August 6, 1777, during a savage ambush near Fort Stanwix. British forces and Mohawk warriors trapped ...

The Siege of Boonesborough of 1778 Shawnee Chief Blackfish had a clever plan in September 1778. He would trick Daniel Boone into surrendering his Kentucky fort without a fight. For two weeks, ...