Want to visit a castle? You don't have to take a vacation to Europe. Plan your trip now to see a few castles close to home. There are three in Mississippi, according to Castlesy, a site that tracks ...

When you think of castles, your mind probably jumps to Europe: Scotland’s windswept fortresses or France’s fairy-tale châteaux. But you don’t need to cross the Atlantic to see beautiful castles. The ...

Boldt Castle on Heart Island in Alexandria Bay, New York, was built at the turn of the 20th century and quickly abandoned after the sudden death of George C. Boldt's wife. In the 1970s, the castle ...

America doesn’t have centuries of medieval history or ancient royal families building fortresses, but that didn’t stop wealthy industrialists and eccentric millionaires from constructing their own ...

If those walls could talk. If only the floors could say who walked across them, carrying towels, suitcases or boxes. Would the doors say who slammed them, or why? Could the windows tell who peered ...

On Aug. 10, 1846, by a vote of 26 to 13, the U.S. Senate passed the act organizing the Smithsonian Institution, which was signed into law by President James K. Polk. Among its provisions, the Organic ...