This abandoned mansion, known as Chateau Secret, dates back to the 15th century and was originally a medieval fortress. It ...

Château Lumiere, built in the Neo-Baroque style in the early 1900s, was the family home of a wealthy tobacco tycoon of Swiss ...

If there’s one thing the French have that we don’t, it’s castles. In New York City, you might be able to attend an illegal speakeasy inside a water tower, a recreation of the Titanic’s last supper, ...

A historic French chateau is not your typical vacation home. Especially not an utterly abandoned chateau. But as soon as the Waters family laid eyes on Chateau de Gudanes in the southwestern village ...

The ghosts of what once was haunt us all. Sometimes they float back into the present, catching us off guard—maybe late at night, when we’re tucked into our beds or when the wind blows from a certain ...

Château de la Mothe-Chandeniers, an abandoned castle in France that traces its origins to the 13th century, has an unusual new group of owners: 11,000 strangers from across the globe who teamed up ...

French photographer Romain Veillon recently had the chance to explore a famous old chateau that represented the height of luxury in 1901. Now abandoned, the chateau in Veillon’s images shows how the ...

A 100-year-old Belgian chateau looks abandoned from the outside but inside, it tells a much different story. Ransom Riggs, the writer, uploaded the footage of the inside of the mansion years ago ...

If you want to know what it was like to live like a French aristocrat in the 1700s, now's your chance―sort of. A mother-daughter duo has teamed up to turn an abandoned, historic chateau in France into ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “We had never planned on a chateau. Our French friends warned us about those,” says Karina Waters, whose Australian family had ...