On February 15, 1958, Elizabeth Taylor and her husband, producer Mike Todd, board his private plane named "The Liz," which crashed a month later killing Todd and two others. Bettmann/CORBIS For almost ...

"It’s a savage mountain that tries to kill you," American alpinist George Bell said of 8,611m K2. Bell was speaking in 1953, after he and his climbing partners nearly died while attempting the first ...

Class is in Session: The sinking of the RMS Titanic At the time, she was the largest man-made moving object in the world. In the matter of a few days, disaster would leave this modern marvel of ...

Even though it occurred almost 2000 years ago, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 is still one of the most famous disasters in history. The incredible thing about the event was that the Roman ...