The author and his daughter make a pilgrimage to witness greatness.

Exploring the riddle of Morgellons disease: sufferers feel things crawling under their skin and hardly anyone believes them.

In 1945, a fire tore through the home of George and Jennie Sodder. Four children escaped; five vanished.

An internet pioneer loses hope in the promise of web culture.

A profile of lawyer Jacques Vergès, who died yesterday after decades spent defending war criminals, terrorists and dictators.

The lost dream of Korleone Young, a high school basketball star who skipped college and flamed out after only one NBA season.

The underground economy of child sex trafficking, and what happens after someone is rescued from it.

The emergence of a radio phenomenon popular amongst young demographic believed lost to interactive distractions.

A profile of filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar during the 2004 Cannes International Film Festival.

The international battle over 17 tons of coins discovered by an American deep-sea treasure hunting company.

How one woman’s sexual assault by four University of Oregon football players in 1980 unwittingly led to the state’s expansive free speech protections.

In his own final days, a Right to Die activist tells the story of his secret, illegal assisted-suicide service.

Beatrice Munyenyezi told her New Hampshire neighbors that she was refugee from the Rwandan genocide. Half of that was true.

John Friend, who founded a new school of yoga, says the practice should be about both exercise and spirituality. Oh, and making money.

How Irv Teibel pioneered the capturing and repackaging of nature’s acoustics.

The story of Jennifer Frey, a sportswriting prodigy who drank herself to death.

A year in the life of Gwen Woods, after her son was killed by police.

World-famous Houston surgeon Bud Frazier spent decades developing a revolutionary device that could save millions of lives.

The actual story behind those viral college acceptance videos out of T.M. Landry.

How an undercover oil industry mercenary tricked pipeline opponents into believing he was one of them.

As mass detentions and surveillance dominate the lives of China’s Uyghurs and Kazakhs, a woman struggles to free herself.

Climate change is bringing tourism and tension to Longyearbyen on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.

Drought is shrinking one of the country’s largest reservoirs, revealing a hidden Eden.

A good trip on psilocybin might be just the ticket to relieve anxiety and depression, particularly in the terminally ill. But are we ready to dive back in to psychedelic research?

During the financial crisis, Sal Pane ran a multimillion-dollar mortgage scam. A few years later, with the help of some high-profile media appearances and a dead man's resume, he won the government contract to clean up Ebola in New York.