Meeting Christopher Thomas Knight, a.k.a. the North Pond Hermit, who lived alone in the Maine woods for nearly 30 years.

Why America, and every other street in Massachusetts, runs (or will eventually run) on Dunkin’.

The on and offline search for the prime suspect in last month’s celebrity nude photo hacking scandal.

Vivien Thomas was paid a janitor’s wage, never went to college, and still became a legend in the field of heart surgery.

A New York gossip reporter makes her way in the wilds of European bureaucracy.

A couple tries to give away their house in Flint, Michigan – but no one wants to live there anymore.

Only after buying a new home did the Milliken family learn something terrible had happened in it.

A small town in Nebraska promised a warm welcome to a family of Katrina evacuees. It didn’t last.

The struggles of Xavier University, a tiny, historically-black school in New Orleans, to train students for medical school.

Explaining a radical shift in the way some of New York’s best restaurants do business.

How an amateur photographer documented the greatest achievement in track and field history.

A 30-year-old funeral director in LA wants to help the living get closer to death.

Behind the character Ursula in The Little Mermaid was a legendary drag queen from Baltimore named Divine.

The final days of the last Navy SEAL to die in Afghanistan.

Winona Ryder has always been trapped in her own anticipatory nostalgia, and the public has always wanted to keep her there.

A civil trial of Officer Marco Proano, who shot Niko Husband in 2011, finds him not guilty. By accident.

The story of the 2010 NCAA championship game between Duke and Butler, and what would have been greatest shot in college basketball history.

Early last year, 10 churches were torched in East Texas. The culprits? Two Baptist teens having a crisis of faith.

“Winning” in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking.

In a shantytown near Johannesburg, an angry mob committed a horrifying crime that was caught on video.

The search for the missing Holocaust hero began in 1945. The unending quest tore his family apart.

In the wake of Rumours, the band endures a series of break-ups.

Gainsbourg decked out his home at 5 Rue de Verneuil in Saint Germain all in black, inspired by a time when he was younger when he'd somehow got the keys to Salvador Dali's house and made love to his first wife in every room while Dali was away. He even stole a small token souvenir in the form of a picture from Dali's porn collection. (Serge was obsessed with Dali and the pair later became friends. The title of 'Je T'Aime... Moi Non Plus' - roughly translated as 'I love you, me neither' - was inspired by something Dali was once supposed to have said: "Picasso is Spanish - so am I; Picasso is a genius - so am I; Picasso is a communist - me neither.")

The battle of Wanat—the most scrutinized engagement in the Afghanistan War—seen from three perspectives: a dead soldier, his father, and his commander.

“The Anonymous mystique had allowed a group of incompetents to hijack, then discredit, an important grassroots movement in the eyes of national media.”