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Alexander the Great was a fearless warrior—but few know about the campaign that nearly brought him to his knees and left him a paranoid shell of a man.

Before Christopher Columbus even thought to enter the picture, a little-regarded adventurer became the first European to reach North America. This is his remarkable untold story.

As the biggest name in one of the most mysterious vocations, Mineko Iwasaki's is a story full of intrigue and turmoil. It’s also a story of betrayal.

South Pole Editorial. Two men led the first expeditions to our planet’s southernmost point in 1912. But only one of those men made it back alive.

There have been fewer expeditions to the deepest point of the ocean then there have been to the moon—but in the 60s, the Bathyscaphe Trieste made history.

Tulum. Tulum lies just a bit south of the resort-filled Playa Del Carmen in Mexico—but its exquisite surface hides a dark history.