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From those famous horned helmets to the vaunted fiery funerals, we're busting your favorite Viking misconceptions.

There are many affordable cities across the country where you can spend more time enjoying yourself and less time checking your bank accounts.

Some of history's most infamous secret societies have planned revolutions and assassinations—others, are happy enough just to hang around college campuses.

With 40 years of playing Elvira under her beehive, Cassandra Peterson is showing no signs of slowing down.

From music festivals to concert venues, these cities outperform the rest when it comes to live musical entertainment.

Physical education in centuries past was sadistic, sexist, and just plain bizarre. Be grateful you never had to experience these P.E. nightmares.

From the inventor who disappeared along with the lighthouse he designed to the daredevil whose contraptions vaulted him to fame then cut his life short, these are the sad stories of inventors killed by their own inventions.

From werewolves to vampires, many classic monster myths attributed to folklore actually originated with horror movies.

These Indigenous politicians, activists, linguists, teachers, and artists—who work to preserve their heritage and secure civil rights—deserve to be better known.

While there are tons of videos on sites like YouTube that have magic tricks today, before the internet, people learned these spells from books.

On October 8, 1871, Chicago was transformed into a hellish inferno by the Great Chicago Fire. By the time a sudden rain helped extinguish the flames, 300 people were dead, and 100,000 more were homeless. And no: It was not because of Mrs. O'Leary's cow.

Googling “how to spell Hawaii” is a lot harder when you don’t know how to spell ‘Hawaii.’ But people are doing their best.