The controversial sex-research team pioneered the field of human sexuality and introduced ideas that are still widely used today. Leonard Mccombe/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty ImagesCo-researchers Dr. Virginia Johnson with Dr. William Masters. William Masters and Virginia Johnson were the first researchers to “bring science to the bedroom;” before their experiments in the 1950s, sex had never really been addressed from a purely medical standpoint. During his anatomy studies, Masters came to the realization that although studies had been done of the reproductive habits of rabbits and apes, no similar study had been done on humans.

Estimated to be the second most expensive property in the world, Antilia has three helipads, a 168-car garage, nine elevators, and four floors just for plants.Frank Bienewald/LightRocket via Getty ImagesCosting upwards of $2 billion to complete, Antilia is considered one of the most expensive private residences in the world. While a 27-story, two billion-dollar house for six people in the most poverty-stricken area of India might seem a tad bit extravagant to most, the richest man in India and sixth richest in the world, Mukesh Ambani, seems to have missed the memo.

From being partially scalped to having her eyes gouged out, Kelly Anne Bates was tortured for weeks before James Patterson Smith killed her on April 16, 1996.On April 16, 1996, James Patterson Smith contacted Greater Manchester Police to say that his teenage girlfriend Kelly Anne Bates had accidentally drowned in the tub. Though he claimed he’d tried to resuscitate her, she was dead at the age of just 17. Public DomainIn 1996, James Patterson Smith of Manchester, England slowly tortured his 17-year-old girlfriend Kelly Anne Bates to death over the course of four gruesome weeks.

After the Silver Bridge collapsed into the Ohio River and killed 46 people in December 1967, some claimed that a mysterious visitor known as the Mothman had visited them to warn of the impending tragedy.On December 15, 1967, tragedy struck the Silver Bridge connecting Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and Gallipolis, Ohio. It was the late afternoon rush hour and dozens of cars were packed bumper-to-bumper up and down the length of the bridge.

Made from coffee cherries that have been digested and defecated by civets, Kopi Luwak is widely known as "cat poop coffee" in the West — where it sells for $600 a pound.The civet is a raccoon-like nocturnal mammal native to the tropical forests of Asia. It was once considered a pest in the urban areas of Indonesia — but its dung has proven to be a very valuable commodity known as Kopi Luwak, a.