WARNING: This articles contains centuries-old mummy wiener and sex toys.
Sometimes, people who have near-death experiences report going in a different direction.
You probably think The Cold War was a sort of well-orchestrated military balancing act. But frankly the more you read about it the less it seems like the work of adults.
The Cold War was a 40-year pissing contest in which the entire world's population kept a constant eye on the news, with a never-ending fear that one side or the other would whap their big, red Armageddon button first.
You can actually make yourself feel a whole lot better about your life today merely by reminding yourself of a few key things about the past.
Most of our assumptions about what marriage was like back in the day are complete bullshit.
We want to emphasize the word 'theories' here -- none of these have been proven, and probably never will be.
The pages of history are littered with characters with incredible powers, insane origin stories, and armies of faceless goons to deploy them on. Here are five of the fist-fistingest.
Frolic with me through these stories of historical, murderous strangeness.
When future archaeologists look back at our era thousands of years from now, they'll reach two major conclusions: 1) our subway system was very inefficient and bizarrely sandwich-centric, and 2) we were morons.
When we recently heard from a man who managed to escape from one of these places -- by trekking through the desert, on foot -- we had to hear his story.
We sent a writer out to Vietnam to speak with Nguyen Hoa Giai. He fought as a Viet Cong from the late 1950s to the end of the war in the mid-'70s. Here's what he told us.
A Transalantic discussion of our global holiday
Prior to 9/11, we could scarcely believe such a thing was even possible. But that's only because our memories totally suck.
Not even famous geniuses make great stuff all the time.