In the rolling hills outside Rougemont, North Carolina, a castle rises from the trees like something out of a fairytale. Its red turrets and gothic arches catch the light in strange, romantic ways, and from a distance it seems as if it might be centuries old, brought over stone by stone from some European hillside. In truth, this is Castle Mont Rouge , and its story belongs entirely to North Carolina. The castle was the vision of sculptor Robert Mihaly, who set out to create

Tucked into a quiet, wooded lot in Jackson, Mississippi, Fountainhead  doesn’t rise. It settles —low and horizontal, hugging the earth as if grown there, not built. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and completed between 1950 and 1954, this Usonian masterpiece was more than a home—it was a philosophy in wood, glass, and brick. From the outside, it might look modest. But step inside, and the genius unfolds. Wright designed Fountainhead as a two-bedroom, two-bathroom residence, wi

Tucked beneath a canopy of old oaks on a quiet street in Oak Park, Illinois, stands a house that helped shape one of America’s greatest literary voices. The Ernest Hemingway Birthplace wasn’t built to be a monument. It began, simply, as a home—a graceful Queen Anne built in 1890, filled with the sounds of piano music, dinner conversation, and the rhythm of daily life. It was here, in a second-floor bedroom at 339 N. Oak Park Avenue, that Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in 18