On the northwestern edge of Hanover lies one of the most magnificent baroque gardens in Europe, and at its head stands a palace reborn. Herrenhausen Palace was the summer residence

Near Apeldoorn, Het Loo is a Dutch Baroque palace built by William and Mary of Orange, famed for formal gardens that were lost for centuries and lovingly recreated in our own time.

Rising in a cascade of gleaming white walls and gracefully curving roofs above the city that shares its name, Himeji Castle is widely regarded as the most beautiful castle in

Discover Hluboka Castle in South Bohemia, a dazzling white neo-Gothic palace modeled on Windsor Castle by the Schwarzenberg family, often called the most beautiful castle in the Czech Republic.

There are castles that hide and castles that announce themselves, and then there is Hochosterwitz, which does something stranger: it performs. Rising on a lone dolomite crag from the flat

Fly into Salzburg, or simply round a corner in its old town, and one thing dominates everything: a vast white fortress riding the crest of a green hill, floating above

From Viking longships and stave churches to polar explorers and the prudent wealth of North Sea oil, the long story of the Norwegians and the fjords that shaped them.

From one northern island, the English gave the world a global language, parliamentary government, and an empire of a quarter of the planet. An honest, in-depth portrait of their origins, achievements, and reckoning.

The Mongols, who appeared on the stage of history in the early 1220s under the leadership of Genghis Khan, trampled a wide geography extending from China to Europe under the

While the Pervâneoğulları Principality, which ruled in and around Sinop in the last period of the Anatolian Seljuk State, attracted attention with its closeness to the Mongols and its alliance