Chateau Laroche—known to locals and visitors alike as Loveland Castle—rises from the Ohio landscape like a fever dream, a stone fortress that would look more at home in the European countryside than ...

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Get to know Annecy, an enchanting French town framed by the Alps with a medieval, canal-filled village and a glittering lake.

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For several decades, a team of researchers have been carrying out excavations at old cemeteries and villages at sites in central Mali and eastern Senegal. Over the years they’ve come across a handful ...

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