An inventor develops an idea during the mix of WWII, which would have pigeons guide missiles.

Maria Tallchief, a trailblazing Native American, became a famed prima ballerina and the Nutcracker’s iconic Sugar Plum Fairy.

In 1980, an 8-year-old finds rotted $20 bills buried in dirt—cash that investigators link to one of America’s most famous unsolved cases.

Before the term "snowboarding" existed—and at least 80 years before it was an Olympic phenomenon—people were surfing down snowy hills.