History is more than just innovations and triumphs. In truth, much of it involves numerous instances of brutality, warfare, and other unsettling, regrettable realities.
Take a look below at some of the most haunting moments from history.
The two siblings shown here are experiencing the thrill of an electrical storm at Sequoia National Park in California around 1975. Shortly after this picture was taken, they were struck by lightning. Both survived.
Joseph Goebbels glares at Jewish photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1933.
Anne Frank’s father Otto, revists the attic where he and his family hid.
Che Guevara’s last moments. Bolivia, 9 October 1967.
Replica dog tags of every soldier who never made it back from Vietnam.
People on display at the Coney Island Human Zoo in 1904.
A father looks for his two missing sons during the Kosovo war in 1999. He would later find them.
The survivors the 1972 Andes plane crash.
The last photo ever of Nikola Tesla, 1943
Segregationists harass 6 year old Ruby Bridges with a doll in a coffin.
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Windows on the World, the restaurant on top of the WTC North Center, 1976.
