It seems like musical understanding and aptitude is hard-wired into our neurology, much like language itself. But elephants and other animals respond, too.
It is almost impossible to picture Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, without Christ the Redeemer, the massive statue of Jesus with the arms open wide over Guanabara Bay.
Geoff Nicholls, one of the longtime members of metal pioneers Black Sabbath, was literally behind the scenes for much of his tenure as the band's keyboardist.
Heaven's Gate was a cult formed in 1975 that lured their followers through Christian teachings paired with UFO-inspired mysticism. It all led to their deaths.
The conception of the rapture doesn't appear in the Bible. It arose out of developments in thought during the Great Awakenings of the 18th and 19th centuries.
At the peak of his success, actor Cary Grant turned to a revolutionary new treatment being offered by a psychiatrist: LSD. He would take it more than 100 times.
To most football fans, he is known as the charismatic owner of the Dallas Cowboys football team. Jerry Jones has owned the franchise since the late '80s.
Fine food, too much wine, and ridiculous games -- some things don't change even over thousands of years. Here's what it was like to party in ancient Greece.
Sister Gerard Fernandez said she felt "broken people" were her calling. She's walked with 18 condemned people to their deaths and offered them comfort.
Leo Tolstoy was one of the greatest writers of all time. His classics "Anna Karenina" and "War and Peace" cemented his reputation as a literary genius.
What would you say if we discovered a temple -- monolithic, complex, full of multiple chambers, multi-ton stones -- that dates back to at least 9000 BCE?