In 1906, a sealed Parisian magazine called Le Stéréo-Nu brought erotic stereoviews to a mass audience. Behind the camera was Jean Agélou, whose most famous model went on to sit for Modigliani and marry a celebrated Japanese painter.

In 1943, a Pennsylvania dentist convinced FDR to fund a secret WWII weapon: bats armed with napalm. The result accidentally burned down a US Army airfield. Here's the full story of Project X-Ray.

Phil Spector was one of the greatest music producers who ever lived. He was also a violent, controlling man with a gun obsession and a decades-long pattern of threatening women. This is the full story.

Charles Manson didn't just cross paths with the Beach Boys. He moved in, destroyed their cars, racked up a record-breaking gonorrhea bill, and got one of his songs onto their album. Here's the full, disturbing story.

Pope John XII turned the Vatican into a brothel at 18. Discover the shocking true story of history's most scandalous pontiff, from orgies to murder charges.

From Mad Jack Mytton setting himself on fire to cure hiccups, to the Duke who built 15 miles of underground tunnels to avoid people, meet the most gloriously strange figures in British history.