John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary of 1865 documented nearly 10,000 words used by Victorian London's criminals, costermongers, students, and MPs. Here's the story behind it.

Marcel Petiot posed as a Resistance doctor offering escape from Nazi-occupied Paris. Instead he lured Jewish refugees to his murder house on Rue Le Sueur and killed them for their money.

In June 1962, photographer Bert Stern shot Marilyn Monroe across two separate sessions at the Hotel Bel-Air for Vogue. Six weeks later, she was dead. The story behind The Last Sitting.