Elaine Parent, a notorious con artist and murderer, operated for decades in the United States and England using more than 20 stolen identities. She began her career as a legitimate real estate agent ...

Take Marcus Antonius Exochus, whose story is told on his tombstone. Though much of his life and death remains a mystery, it ...

Planet Earth is defined by astonishing extremes, from the deepest part of the ocean to the world’s highest peak. It’s a planet where everything from flora and fauna to terrain and temperature can vary ...

In 2018, temperatures in Ouargla, Algeria soared to a record-breaking 124 degrees Fahrenheit. This is the city’s official record, though an even higher — though disputed — temperature of 128 degrees ...

Before Death Valley became known as the hottest place on Earth, that record belonged to the small town of El Azizia, Libya. On September 13, 1922, a temperature of 136.4 Fahrenheit was recorded at an ...

Turbat, located in the southwest of the Balochistan region in Pakistan, and perched along the Kech River, is not only considered one of the hottest places in Pakistan, it’s also considered one of the ...

One ancient legend holds that the Huoyan Mountains of China, better known as the “Flaming Mountains,” were created when a Monkey King knocked over a kiln of the gods and spilled embers from the ...

Located in the southeast of Iran, the Lut Desert (Dasht-e Lut) spreads across 5 million acres. Its name is Persian and describes a place without water or vegetation. And the name is apt — Lut is the ...

Claude Monet’s painting Charing Cross Bridge depicts London’s cityscape shrouded in a yellow haze. In 1949, an American literary agent named Emery Reves gifted the painting to former prime minister ...

Of all the locations around the world that have registered history’s highest temperatures, none come close to Death Valley — the hottest place on Earth. Located in California, near the Nevada border, ...

In January 1960, the tiny Australian town of Oodnadatta smashed national records when it recorded a temperature of 123 degrees Fahrenheit (a record later matched by the town of Onslow in 2022).

Temperatures may be hot in Australia, but they’re even hotter in Kuwait, one of the hottest places in the world. The weather station of Mitribah in the northwest of the country recorded a record ...