Underground forces pushed the rock layers straight up from their first flat position. The San Andreas Fault, just east of ...

Grafton Ghost Town sits 3.5 miles from Highway 9 through Rockville, on the south bank of the Virgin River. Before Hollywood ...

Most towns in the 1830s had one thing in common: white founders. But tucked away in western Illinois, a free Black man named ...

Soap Lake sits in central Washington at the foot of the Grand Coulee. This unusual 2-square-mile lake reaches 70 feet deep ...

Scattered across Washington’s prairies sit thousands of grass-covered bumps that have puzzled scientists for decades. These ...

Captain William Van Schaick steered the burning boat toward North Brother Island, running it onto shore 25 feet from land.

On September 17, 1862, over 23,000 soldiers fell in a single day near the small town of Sharpsburg, Maryland. The battle ...

The Pennsylvania System came up with the idea of solitary confinement. The goal was to have prisoners contemplate their ...

Finnish soldiers on skis beat Russian forces during the 1939-1940 Winter War by moving quietly through forests where tanks ...

President James Buchanan sent the unarmed ship Star of the West with 200 soldiers and supplies on January 9, 1861. When it ...

Black and brown round pebbles fill the low spots all over White Pocket. These metal-looking balls are made from iron and ...

Arlington National Cemetery wasn’t always a cemetery at all. The land once belonged to the family of Confederate General ...