This Titanic menu offers a fascinating look at the opulent dining experience enjoyed by first-class passengers on the doomed ship — though such fare was not available to everyone onboard.Henry Aldridge & SonThis Titanic menu sold at auction is the only known copy from April 11, 1912. On April 11, 1912, first class passengers on the RMS Titanic sat down to enjoy a meal of oysters, duck, beef, and French ice cream.

Legend has it that Harry Houdini died on Halloween in 1926 after an overeager fan punched him in the gut and caused his appendix to rupture — but the two events may not have been linked.Harry Houdini defied the impossible throughout a mystifying career that still makes him a household name today. From swallowing needles a score at a time to pulling himself out of a whale carcass, to his famous “Chinese Water Torture Cell” escapes, Houdini dazzled millions with his stunts.

Earl Van Best Jr.: The Zodiac Killer Suspect Who Was Accused By His Son San Francisco ChronicleA San Francisco Chronicle photo of Earl Van Best Jr. from coverage of his statutory rape trial. When author Gary Stewart was asked about his thoughts on the Zodiac Killer’s identity, he had a curious response. In his 2014 book The Most Dangerous Animal of All, Stewart alleged that the mysterious murderer had been his biological father, a man named Earl Van Best Jr.

Meet Annie Edson Taylor and learn why the tale behind her infamous stunt is as fascinating as the stunt itself.Annie Edson Taylor, the first woman to go over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel, pictured here with her preferred mode of transportation. In 1901, it wasn’t Evel Knievel, Johnny Knoxville, or any other man who was challenging modern conventions with unthinkable stunts. It was a 63-year-old schoolteacher named Annie Edson Taylor.

Dixia Cheng: Beijing’s Underground City And Cold War Shelter David/FlickrThe entrance to Beijing’s Underground City. At the height of the Cold War, as much of the world worried about the possibility of sudden nuclear fallout, citizens of Beijing, China could take solace in the fact that they had a bomb-safe refuge right below their feet. Stretching across 33 square miles of underground catacombs, Beijing Underground City — or the “Underground Great Wall” — is a complex tunnel system hand-dug by citizens in the ’60s and ’70s as a protective measure against invasions, air raids, or even nuclear strikes, Atlas Obscura reports.