Some of us are happy at the beach with our overturned sand buckets creating various mounds. Dig a trench around the sand mounds, and voila! A castle and moat. That’s nowhere near good enough for a ...

Growing up in Colorado, Calvin Seibert spent a lot of time at construction sites. Back then, the artist was thousands of miles away from an ocean, but that didn’t stop him from building castles out of ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- It may never be home to the future king and it certainly won't stand for centuries, but the castle taking shape in Lower Manhattan has been getting the royal treatment. Tourists ...

As building blocks go, pancakes fall low on the list. But a successful sand castle, I learned, starts with pancakes. A tall stack. Turns out those plastic molds I had packed with sand — only to dump ...

ERG CHEBBI, Morocco - The silhouettes of our three-camel caravan shone against a sand dune like a background drawing of the three kings in a nativity scene. While Georgie, as I had nicknamed my blond ...