The Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center, which opened to the public Friday, is the first LGBTQ visitor center in the National Park Service.

Fans of Marilyn Monroe have won a battle to preserve her mark on Los Angeles and are a step closer to seeing a towering statue of the silver screen icon remain in Palm Springs

Fossils from the skull of a Neanderthal child that likely had Down syndrome shed light into the communal caregiving that likely aided in the child's survival.

Being back at Rickwood Field brought back painful memories for MLB Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson, who detailed the racism he experienced there.

Parvosuchus aurelioi dates back 237 million years and is the first small, predatory reptile of its kind to be found in Brazil.

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of ancient crocodile-like reptile that once roamed the lands and waters of Brazil.

Lokiceratops rangiformis lived about 78 million years ago, researchers said.

Researchers have discovered a new, giant-horned species of dinosaur named Lokiceratops rangiformis that they say is the "largest and more ornate" of its kind ever found.

The World War II mystery of what happened to a Finnish passenger plane after it was shot down over the Baltic Sea by Soviet bombers appears to finally be solved more than eight decades later

The ornate room would have been used for ritual activities or storing sacred objects, according to the Archaeological Parks of Pompeii.

The room has been interpreted as a sacrarium, or a Roman sanctuary.

The Fisher family discovered the bones uring a hike in North Dakota’s Badlands.

They jumped out of the same planes that flew over Normandy 80 years ago.

A group of American lawmakers honored the sacrifices of World War II veterans who took part in D-Day with a parachute jump Friday morning.

American heroes who changed the course of history are returning to the beaches of Normandy and are met with gratitude for their sacrifice 80 years later.

ABC News’ David Muir talks with some of the brave American soldiers who stormed the beaches of Normandy.

The president attended a ceremony at the Normandy American Cemetery.

President Biden will also attend a ceremony at the American Military Cemetery in Colleville-Sur-Mer and will meet with U.S. WWII vets who made the trip to France as well.

Plus, President Joe Biden and other world leaders gather in Normandy, France, to honor the incredible servicemen who landed on the beaches eight decades ago.

President Joe Biden plans to tour the hallowed ground near the beaches where more than 150,000 Allied troops began liberating Europe of Nazi control.

American Airlines flew 68 World War II veterans to France to remember the fateful day.

A group of 68 World War II veterans have returned to Normandy in France to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day.

Waverly B. Woodson was a medic on Omaha Beach during D-Day when his heroism saved untold lives. Now he's finally being honored for it.

June 6 marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day, when Allied forces invaded Normandy, France.

The stegosaurus skeleton, known as Apex, is valued at $4-6 million.

Major League Baseball has merged Negro Leagues statistics into its record books. The granddaughter of one of the Negro Leagues' greats calls it "a dream come true."

John Lennon's "Help!" guitar, previously thought lost for 50 years, sold at auction for a record $2.9 million.

The Stone Age fossils were discovered by a winemaker in Austria while renovating his cellar.

Scientists have completed a complex reconstruction of a New Zealand bird that went extinct about 700 years ago.

A look at the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, through the eyes of the students then who fought against segregation.

Following his historic first trip to space, 90-year-old Ed Dwight sat among three Black NASA astronauts who thanked him for pathing their way to orbit.

Linsey Davis travels to Georgia to learn more about her family tree.

Authorities are looking for two people who they say committed “archeological theft” at a U.S national park in Moab, Utah.

The "Little Rock Nine" were the first African American students to attend Little Rock Central High School following Brown v. Board.

It has been 70 years since Brown v. Board of Education, but an ABC data analysis shows that racial demographics still vary significantly in the U.S. education system.

The National Park Service said it is seeking to identify two suspects captured on video removing artifacts from a cabinet at Canyonlands National Park in Utah.

The Mirage Hotel and Casino is closing on the Las Vegas Strip after it was acquired by Hard Rock in 2022.

More than 100 years since the nation’s deadliest race massacre, the Senate is considering a bipartisan bill to grant national monument status to Greenwood, Oklahoma.

Protests at 1968's historic Democratic National Convention led to the arrest of hundreds of protesters. Could Democrats see the same at their 2024 convention?

Second Lt. Fred L. Brewer Jr., a Tuskagee airman who went missing during World War II, is set to be laid to rest nearly 80 years after he went missing.

Stallone marks 50 years of "The Lords of Flatbush" with photos from the film.

Large fossil footprints unearthed in China have led to the discovery of a "megaraptor" dinosaur, a relative of the velociraptor, a new study suggests.

"Our animal is on par with the way raptors are depicted by Hollywood," said paleontologist Dr. Scott Persons of the discovery.

The capsule contained documents of the community from 1920.

George Takei, the actor who played Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek, has written a children's book about his time in a Japanese internment camp as a child.

The women of World War II were awarded Congress' highest civilian honor.

A group of artists, including Drake, have received a pop art amusement park featuring original pieces from Salvador Dali, Jean-Michel Basquiat and others.

The story of a violent 19th-century coup against Black businesses and integrated city hall was largely left untold, but now historians are working to honor those victims.

Researchers at the Smithsonian have discovered a new ancient species of amphibians that could help explain how modern-day frogs evolved.

The shipwreck's deep-sea location, which remained a mystery until 2015, has been entangled in an international ownership debate.