In the 1920s and 1930s, monumental grottoes sprang up along the roadsides of the American Midwest, becoming a folk-art phenomenon. These outdoor sculptural marvels were colorful and dazzling, made of ...

The rolling green hills of Tivoli had been a popular summertime escape since Roman times when Ippolito d’Este decided to erect his villa there in 1550. D’Este had recently suffered his first of five ...

Their boats would moor at the bottom of his Thames-side garden, and then, dressed in wide-skirted gowns made of Indian calico, the fashionable ladies of early 18th-century London would come calling on ...

The Margate Shell Grotto is one of Kent, England's greatest cultural treasures. Some 4.6 million seashells line the walls of the subterranean passageway in ornate mosaics—but just as interesting as ...