The Appalachian Trail Conservancy headquarters at 799 Washington Street in Harpers Ferry honors Earl Shaffer’s historic 2,000-mile healing journey after WWII. You can visit free Thursday-Monday ...

Imagine Exhibitions, which owns Real Bodies, has categorically denied Kim’s claims. The company stated the disputed specimen has remained on continuous public display in Las Vegas since 2004, ...

The Orlando shutdown is part of a wave of Frito-Lay plant closures across the country. In June 2025, PepsiCo closed a 50-year-old facility in Rancho Cucamonga, California, cutting 480 jobs.

Southwest Airlines is about to become a very different airline. Starting January 27, 2026, passengers will get assigned seats for the first time in the carrier’s 53-year history. The familiar A, B, ...

In summer 1950, polio hit tiny Wytheville, Virginia with brutal force. The first case struck 20-month-old Johnny Seccafico in late June. Soon after, the town of just 5,500 people had 184 cases—one in ...

Stone Mountain wasn’t just a big rock in Georgia. It was the heart of an empire. In 1887, the Venable brothers bought this mountain for $48,000 and changed American building forever. Soon, their ...

October 1943 turned the skies over Germany into a death trap for American airmen. The Eighth Air Force sent waves of B-17 bombers deep into Nazi territory, but the cost was steep. In just one week, ...

Most steamboats in the 1800s died young – just four or five years before fires, explosions, or river snags claimed them. Not the City of Hawkinsville. Built in Georgia in 1886, this tough wooden ...

Count John Polereczky went from Hungarian nobility to Maine lighthouse keeper in one lifetime. Born in France, he fought for America as a Hussar during the Revolution, then settled in Dresden, Maine.

Moundville Archaeological Park hides a crime that went cold for decades. On March 6, 1980, thieves broke into the Erskine Ramsay Repository and took 264 Native American pottery vessels worth $1 ...

In 1907, a doctor named T. W. Hardison had a simple idea that changed Arkansas forever. While hiking Petit Jean Mountain with lumber bosses who said the land was too hard to log, Hardison thought: why ...

Reshaping travel along Michigan’s lakeshore Michigan’s Great Lakes shoreline is buzzing again, with small towns and coastal cities seeing a wave of renewed energy. From lively festivals to charming ...