From the first photo ever taken to the first photo ever uploaded to the internet, see 27 of history's most important images.

The friendship between Odin Lloyd and NFL superstar Aaron Hernandez was an unlikely one — and unfortunately for Lloyd, it was a fatal one as well.

The fishermen found a whale carcass, and in its guts a chunk of the rare substance ambergris — which they sold to a perfumer in the United Arab Emirates.

Sally Hemings is often described as Thomas Jefferson's mistress, but the reality is that she was nothing more than his property.

The FBI claims it hasn’t found anything, but the two treasure hunters who told them about the gold think otherwise.

Discover how it was taken and why nobody but Einstein liked it at first.

In May 1845, the HMS Terror and Erebus set sail from England under the command of Sir John Franklin to find the Northwest Passage — but their journey ende...

The octopus truly is a brilliant creature.

"You don't know you're making history when it's happening," said Charity Adams Earley, the trailblazing Army battalion commander. "I just w...

Genene Jones is alleged to have killed as many as 60 children while working as a pediatric nurse in Texas in the 1980s. She almost gained her freedom in 2...