HISTORY

After the Berlin Wall fell, it didn’t completely disappear. Here are 15 surprising places where segments of the Berlin Wall stand today.

Louis Vuitton has been such a big part of the high-fashion world for so long that it’s easy to forget Vuitton—who was born in 1821, founded the company in 1854, and died in 1892—was an actual person.

This rare, historic footage captures Tulsa's thriving Black Wall Street neighborhood before it was destoryed in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

For three weeks each August, Edinburgh buzzes with activity as people pour into the Scottish capital for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Fifty years ago, Alan Shepard became the first astronaut to hit a golf ball on the moon. Read on for more facts about trailblazing career at NASA.

Kids thought they were buying an adorable little pet when they ordered a monkey from their favorite comic book. What they got was a wild animal that pooped everywhere and attacked their mothers' bridge clubs.

Michelangelo is one of the most celebrated artists in history. While he disliked signing his work, time and humidity changes may have just revealed a thumbprint on a wax butt.

Renowned landscape architect Charles Downing Lay beat the odds to become a champion town planner at the 1936 Games in Berlin.

You may know Bob to be a rather unremarkable name, but these individuals—and one haircut—have done some amazing things.

After Shizo Kanakuri pulled out of a race during the 1912 Olympics, he unintentionally became mythologized as the “Japanese who vanished.”

The river Thames snakes its way through the center of London, continuing to waylay whales, inspire artists, sink ships, and occasionally flood areas of the British capital

The wreck of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald isn't the only ship to have met an early end on the Great Lakes.