Elements might be lost in adaptation, but Victor Hugo's novel "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" is remembered through the appreciation of the actual cathedral.
On November 11, 2000, over 100 skiers were riding a cable car in Kaprun, Austria, excited for a day traversing the Alps, but tragedy struck moments later.
Steve Callahan left the Canaries on January 29 and the first week of his journey "was smooth." However, on the evening of February 4, something struck the ship.
Brianna Maitland was last seen shortly before midnight on March 19 in 2004. She was working her dishwashing job at the Black Lantern Inn in Montgomery.
Since Guantánamo Bay detention camp, also known as Gitmo, opened in 2002, hundreds of people have been detained — and not all of them have made it out alive.
Plane crashes don't occur regularly, but when they do, they often receive a lot of media attention. Check out some of history's most deadly plane crashes.
The Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II is responsible for the Ishtar Gate and perhaps the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. He's also associated with a mental illness.
Thousands of Japanese service personnel either volunteered or were pressured into giving their lives for their country in suicide attacks, by air and by sea.
The "Black Sea Deluge" theory posits that the Mediterranean spilled over into the Black Sea with a force that inspired ancient tales of massive floods.
Czar Nicholas II was the oldest of five children, with his youngest sister being Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna. She would not meet her brother's cruel fate.
It's not uncommon presidents have regrets about their time in office. Andrew Jackson's was interesting, to say the least. It will probably surprise you.
Civilizations all over the world have searched for the fountain of youth in one way or another for thousands of years. The fountain could be a spring or river.
The global atrocities committed before and during World War II are too numerous to quantify and were carried out by many political and military leaders.
The events that unfolded after Lincoln was shot involved a grand plot aimed at multiple political assassinations and a fiery conclusion to the manhunt.
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy is one of the most infamous events in American history. Here's what JFK was doing in the days before his death.
In 1847, his wife, Virginia, died at the age of 24 due to tuberculosis. Her death utterly devastated Poe, who then struggled both financially and physically.