Everyone who ventures here seems to have the same two questions: How did this place get its name and why is there a European castle…

They are small plots of land, but add them together and they account for a growing trend in the city of Chicago. Some date to…

When people can’t pay cash for the items they want, they may try to barter. That’s what this saloon did, and what they received became…

In this nation, a veterinarian may be called upon to help a sick animal. The vets Peter Shinn helps train not only heal animals, they…

There are certainly plenty of battles and firefights that continue to be waged in Afghanistan. However, for this team, most of the challenges there are…

Is turning corn into ethanol causing food prices to rise and some people to starve around the globe? You may have heard such arguments, so…

On Veterans Day, we remember those who have served our country and those who have fought to preserve freedom at home and around the world….

Tom Mix was known as the King of the Cowboys, starring in over 300 films from 1910 – 1935. He might also be the king…

When Union and Confederate sympathizers threatened to take this banker’s money, he did what any logical person would do–he dressed as a woman and began…

When the Civilian Conservation Corp was working here in the 1930s they began to notice some unusual carving in the rocks alongside the roads they…