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George Mallory disappeared near the top of Everest, leaving behind a family and a question people couldn’t stop asking. Seventy-five years later, climbers finally found him. You might think that would have settled things. But what they found, and what they didn’t, only made the story harder to explain.

There’s no stranger small talk than the kind that happens under fluorescent lights at an international border. You’re tired, you’re jet-lagged, and suddenly someone in uniform wants to get personal. They ask things you’d barely tell your friends—let alone a stranger with a badge. It feels invasive—but is any of it actually optional?

Your friends want to split rental car costs evenly, but you're doing all the driving. Discover what's fair, how to divide vacation expenses, and when to ask for compensation.

Most of us know what belongs on a hamburger. At least, we think we do. Across America, regional burger traditions and familiar local ingredients have produced some combinations you probably wouldn’t think to order. Some go on top. One even goes inside. Which ones would you eat, and which ones would you avoid?

If Jesus came to save humanity, where would that leave anyone living on another world? This is a legitimate question for religious leaders and one that the Vatican has actually spent time thinking about. However, the answers they've come up with might not be what you expect.

Vacations are precious—we only get so many days a year to escape the grind. So, when one partner wants a cruise and the other is dreaming of an all-inclusive resort, how do you choose?

A California scientist spotted something strange in a creek and discovered an exceptionally preserved mastodon tooth estimated to be at least 10,000 years old, revealing clues about the Ice Age.

When hikers found a body in the Alps in 1991, nobody expected it to become one of the world’s most famous archaeological discoveries. Scientists eventually worked out how old he was. But ten years passed before they spotted the detail that changed his story completely.

DNA is revealing mysterious “ghost populations” of ancient humans whose fossils have never been identified, from Africa to Asia and the Americas.

In 1934, Everett Ruess headed into the Utah wilderness...He never came back. For decades, people searched for him, argued about the clues, and wondered what everyone had missed. Then, in 2009, scientists announced a discovery that seemed to finally answer the biggest question of all.

Explore the most mysterious place in every Canadian province, from UFO sightings and lake monsters to phantom ships, lost treasure, twisted forests, and unexplained events across Canada.

You could travel the entire world looking for these. But unless you eventually reach the United States, you’re going home empty-handed. Some are famous. Others are so strange that even most Americans have no idea they exist.