At a cathedral in York, England, expert stonemasons are combining cutting-edge technology with ancient technique to bring ...

The fact that something as fragile as glass supports so much stone is an amazing part of the cathedral's design. Notre-Dame's gargoyles are very famous. These ugly-looking statues are there for a ...

On Jan. 9, Carter’s casket arrived at the steps of the Washington National Cathedral ... Vader’s head to its 112 grotesques (think “gargoyle,” except that a gargoyle serves a function ...

Most of all, true beauty is the result of a mind that is true and right. Righteousness comes first. Superficial beauty ...

[They] have torn down statues of our founders, desecrated our memorials.” A few days before Carter’s funeral, Hollerith takes me on a tour of the cathedral. If you want to humanize a massive ...

Upper Silesia, a region in southern Poland with long historic ties to the coal industry, is marked by the blood, sweat, and tears of miners. Now, designers are taking this “black gold” and ...

But there are more than just car parts going on here: gargoyles jut out at floor 59 ... It's not New York's biggest cathedral (that honour would go to St. John the Divine), but St. Patrick's ...

For lovers of architecture, Notre Dame Cathedral is an important site. It’s one of the best-known Gothic cathedrals in the ...

Discover the 10th century tunnels that housed Allied troops, a Vauban citadel and a famous sausage. A perfect half-term ...