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If you've got $250 million, Bel Air has the home for you.

From uniting the Crowns to whipping witch hunters into a frenzy, King James VI and I left his mark on history.

The loose flesh that hangs from a turkey’s neck isn’t the most attractive part of the bird—to humans, at least.

NYC311 has fielded calls involving everything from goats to ghosts.

The best Halloween movies for kids are ones that also don't bore the adults.

If you want a taste of fall first thing in the morning, make these sweet potato waffles from the Institute of Culinary Education.

To keep porta potties (relatively) clean, sanitation workers require special equipment and a strong stomach.

You might be surprised to see how these movies end, even if you’ve read the books.

The haunted house is one of horror’s most time-honored tropes, a dark twisting of the place we call home into a maelstrom of terror and things that go bump in the night.

TheLibraryMap organizes 100,000 book titles in a way that’s visually pleasing and easy to navigate.

The baseball icon’s modest Oklahoma home is getting the fractional ownership treatment.

The medieval era wasn’t just a bunch of flat Earthers feasting and jousting.

The tiny chips held just 60 seconds of pop music, but kids still couldn’t get enough.

In Latin America, el Día de los Muertos is a celebration of life and death, and an invitation for the deceased to return home once again to those who love them.

When it comes to superstitions about bad luck, indoor umbrellas are right up there with broken mirrors and black cats.

In this episode of Misconceptions, host Justin Dodd debunks some myths about these great beasts of the ocean, from whether punching them in the nose is a valid defense tactic to the events that inspired 'Jaws.'

Calling a grandparent 'Grandmother' or 'Grandfather' is so played out.

Only three bat species, out of some 1100 in the world, actually have a taste for blood.

‘Black Panther,’ which stars the late Chadwick Boseman, was a major success for the Marvel Cinematic Universe when it hit theaters in 2018.

Known for producing the occasional meteor storm, the Leonid meteor shower is highly anticipated among astronomy fans.