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Apples at Clarkdale Fruit Farms, Deerfield
food

Apple Orchards Are Dens of Casual Thieves

Cale Weissman November 5, 2015
film locations

Mapping Hollywood's Most Infamous Horror Houses

Mark Hayward October 29, 2015
crime and punishment

Shining a Spotlight on Tough-As-Nails L.A. Crime Reporter Agness Underwood

Tanja M. Laden October 27, 2015
Detroit by night.
fire fighters

How Detroit Exorcised Devil's Night

Cale Weissman October 16, 2015
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh's Snoopy Doghouse

Despite being stolen multiple times, this civic electrician's street corner Snoopy won't be stopped.
crime and punishment

The Unsolved Case of the Attempted Assassination of Pope John Paul II

Matthew Blitz September 21, 2015
Men gather outside the National Anti-Suffrage Association headquarters in 1911.
politics

Kim Davis, William Franklin, And Others Who Picked The Wrong Revolution

Cara Giaimo September 14, 2015
The view of Alice Springs from Anzac Hil
crime and punishment

How a Traditional Punishment Ritual Made a Desert Town the Stabbing Capital of the World

George Pendle September 14, 2015
A Thomas Nast cartoon of Boss Tweed escaping jail.
prisons

The New York Prison that Doubled as a Clubhouse For Alimony Cheats

Eric Grundhauser September 4, 2015
Guestling Church
crime and punishment

I Found a Female Serial Killer in My Family Tree

Luke Spencer September 3, 2015
Stockholm, Sweden

Birthplace of the Stockholm Syndrome

Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.
The remains of the execution site.
Visby, Sweden

Galgberget Gallows

This trio of stone spires claims to be the only preserved medieval execution site in Europe.
crime and punishment

The 100-Year History of Women Going Topless in Times Square

Kat Long August 25, 2015
Permanently Closed
East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania

Penn Hills Resort

This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.
Protestor David Kirkwood is detained by police in Scotland during the Battle of George Square in 1919. The last known attempted reading of the Riot Act took place during the protest.
crime

What It Actually Means to 'Read the Riot Act' to Someone

The saying got its start as an 18th-century British law to punish protestors.
Ella Morton July 28, 2022
Plot E
Seringes-et-Nesles, France

Oise Aisne American Cemetery, Plot E

This secret cemetery where no flag is allowed to fly holds the bodies of American soldiers convicted of heinous crimes during WWII.
Pretty Boy's notorious mug shot and his death mask.
East Liverpool, Ohio

Sturgis House Mortuary Museum

This tiny museum kept in a B&B laundry room holds the death mask of notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.
Old Charleston City Jail
Charleston, South Carolina

Old Charleston City Jail

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.