Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 These clandestine bunkers helped keep Switzerland out of WWII. Now they house everything from museums to raclette cheese. Courtesy of Sasso San Gottardo ...

Naval fortresses were once a major feature of naval warfare. That era passed with the start of the Cold War, when coastal installations were eclipsed by a combination of nuclear weapons and U.S. naval ...

The white plaster walls and sweeping terraces of Himeji-jo inspire its other name, “Castle of the White Heron.” . ImageCourtesy of Wikimedia user Oren Rozen (licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0) Today, thanks ...

The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...

What we now know as Denmark was a home base for Viking expeditions far and wide. The Viking Age, characterized by sea travel, trading, exploration, and settlement, was not without its fair share of ...

Your next castle-filled trip could be mapped out for you with an interactive tool which pinpoints more than 7,700 castles, fortresses and palaces across 141 countries. Forget ticking off humdrum ...

A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has systematically mapped and analyzed the cultural landscape of historical folk fortresses ...

Incan fortresses built some 500 years ago have been discovered along an extinct volcano in northern Ecuador, revealing evidence of a war fought by the Inca just before the Spanish conquistadors ...

A monumental archaeological discovery in northern China is reshaping what we know about early human settlement and society. Near the city of Yulin in Shaanxi Province, researchers have uncovered an ...