It was the most prosaic of equipment for the grandest of heists: a ladder, propped right under the noses of French guards. The thieves exited as they entered, through a window, fleeing with nearly all ...

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According to a feature in National Geographic, The Stanley Hotel embraces its haunted reputation, offering ghost tours and ...

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Located just a stone’s throw from Ohio’s Amish Country, Dover serves as both a destination in its own right and a convenient gateway to the simpler pleasures of rural Ohio. The cost of living here ...

These are America’s best space museums, from the Kennedy Space Center to Houston’s Space Center—they get you up close with ...

November’s supermoon will be the second of three consecutive full supermoons this year. Sara Russell, a mineralogist and planetary scientist at London’s Natural History Museum, tells Sky News it will ...

The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we ...

Cruise ships promise luxury, leisure, and escape—but sometimes, those dreams go disastrously off course. Behind the glossy ...