From muscle-bound castles to lavish manor houses, the world is filled with fine stately homes – and many of them happen to be ...

SAN SIMEON, CA - SEPTEMBER 30: Ken Howery attends Hearst Castle Preservation Foundation Annual Benefit Weekend - Legends of the Silver Screen Costume Gala at Hearst Castle on September 30 ...

Santa Maria Airport reported 3.86 inches of rain (41% of average), and Santa Barbara Municipal Airport measured 4.43 inches, ...

Artist and teacher Gerald “Jerry” Winter had an eye for detail – in his art and in his teaching. A professor of art on the ...

One famous shot in the first minutes of the film, showing reflections in a smashed snow globe, anticipates the film’s grand themes of ambition and legacy and the cracked mirror of memory. Welles ...

Morgan had been previously tapped by the elder Hearst to design Hearst Castle in the Central Coast town of San Simeon, CA. Lore has it that Hearst fils intended to donate the property to the U.S ...

And your 30 seconds starts with this. San Simeon estate, a castle built for a publishing tycoon. - Pass. - [David] Elvis Presley's mansion in Memphis, Tennessee. - Pass. - [David] The California ...

If William Randolph Hearst had been forced to build his San Simeon castle on a much tighter budget, he might have come up with something similar. When the Depression hit, the Miramar Estates ...

Before you turn around you pull into San Simeon State Park, home to the most beautiful beach in California. You catch a glimpse of William Randolph Hearst’s Castle, with its stately pleasure ...

Photo credit: Simeon Cooper Nestled in the heart of San Antonio, the Japanese Tea Garden is like finding ... The White Garden, inspired by the famous garden at Sissinghurst Castle in England, is like ...

Spurs rookie Stephon Castle took home some mid-season hardware, earning a unanimous vote for the Castrol Rising Stars game ...