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SAUBRAZ, Switzerland—Swiss artist Francois Monthoux’s annual project to build clay sculptures on the banks of Switzerland’s Toleure river has sprawled into a captivating castle complex this year as the drought afflicting Europe allows him to extend his dream world. Monthoux began this year’s project with modest ambitions six weeks ago but the drought allowed him […]

Visitors can now walk up the King’s stairs at Chateau du Fontainebleau, just days after its full restoration was completed. The 800-year-old Castle was a jewel of the French Renaissance. NTD’s finds out what it feels like to enter the Castle like a King.

An eight-year-old girl has died from injuries sustained in an incident on a bouncy castle, Spanish authorities have reported. Strong winds lifted the inflatable castle several meters into the air during a fair in Mislata, near Valencia in eastern Spain on Tuesday. Spanish news agency EFE reported Wednesday that another eight children were injured, with […]

MELBOURNE—An 11-year-old boy died on Sunday from a jumping castle accident four days ago in Australia’s island state Tasmania, taking the death toll from the tragedy to six children, police said. The children fell 10 meters (33 feet) to the ground after an inflated jumping castle was lifted into the air in a gust of […]

Five children have died and four more critically injured after falling from a jumping castle when it was blown into the air by a wind gust at Hillcrest Primary School in Australia’s southern island state of Tasmania on Thursday morning. The children who died included two boys and two girls in year 6, which would […]

Struggling for a last-minute holiday season gift idea for the person who has everything except their own ancient castle in France? Well for just $55, you can now buy them one. OK, not quite the whole castle, but a part-share of Château de Vibrac, a crumbling fortress in the country’s western Grand Cognac Region that […]

Every year, a hotel in San Francisco unveils a new sugar castle—and this year, there are two. Inside the lobby of the Westin St. Francis Hotel, Pastry Chef Jean-François Houdré unveiled his signature 12-feet rotating holiday sugar castle on Nov. 27. This annual holiday tradition began in 2005 with the stunning Medieval Sugar Castle, a […]

A descendant of the last German kaiser on Tuesday lost a court bid for the return of a castle overlooking the Rhine valley, part of which has been turned into a hotel.

A team of Turkish underwater explorers discovered amazingly preserved remains of a 3,000-year-old castle at the bottom of the country’s largest lake, Lake Van. The team, working under the auspices of the provincial government, believes the castle was built under the Urartu Kingdom, also called the Kingdom of Van, which ruled the region between the […]