From Sedona cliffs to canyon railroads and quiet desert lakes, this Arizona day trip guide maps out quick escapes locals love ...

Northwest Florida stopped to salute its veterans with parades, proclamations, patriotic music and tributes to heroes.

Contributing writer for The Prospect Devon Williams details curatorial choices in the European Art Pavilion at the Princeton ...

After the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs, Mexico’s European overlords used its silver and its agricultural wealth to nourish ...

More than 300 years after a hurricane sank an entire Spanish treasure fleet off Florida’s southeast coast, a group of dedicated divers uncovered some of the riches left behind. What began as ...

According to the U.S. Marine Corps History Division, from 1798 to 1921 the birthday of the Corps had been celebrated in July.

Descendants of Austria’s Habsburg royal family revealed that one of their clan’s greatest treasures, a large diamond dating back to the House of Medici that was feared to have been ...

Empress Zita of Bourbon-Parma wanted the jewel's location to be kept secret for 100 years after the death of her husband, ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed a trove of priceless ancient jewelry and gold coins near the ruins of a historic Christian city. The treasure was found in the ancient city of Hippos near the Sea of ...

Vital information about a covered pit at a West Coast gold mine - which collapsed beneath a 44-year-old loader driver - had been “lost over time” to everyone at the company, a coroner has found.

When Daniel Romero worked at a river mine in Canaima National Park, in southeastern Venezuela, he would wait until the sun ...