From the fairytale towers of Bavaria’s Neuschwanstein to the golden battlements of Jaipur’s Amber Fortress in India, these ...

The beautiful island of the Dominican Republic is the second-largest and most diverse Caribbean country. Surrounded by the ...

When you hear of someone going to Mexico, it's always a sprawling Mexico City, or the resort-packed beach hotspots of Cancun ...

In the 16th century ... on the map. Cavendish - known as The Navigator - set out to emulate Sir Francis Drake, the first English privateer to circumnavigate the globe and he raided Spanish ...

Pieces from the Treasure Island collection ... It was the galleon, a decorative breakwater resembling a 16th-century Spanish ship, that caught the eye of Van Cleef & Arpels’ creative team ...

Back in 16th century ... “[The Spanish] were caught unawares and unguarded. They had no cannon pointing towards the ocean,” Darby explained. Drake “just went from treasure house to treasure ...

[light spanish guitar strums] [crickets] [Narrator] In the early 16th century, as wealth ... but also laid the groundwork for the first ever map of the Gulf Coast line. As Pineda ventured forth ...

scores of Spanish coins from an infamous 18th-century shipwreck. “It’s a lot of work,” Penninger said of searching for treasure ... it has expanded the map of how far historians and ...

“Show me,” King Francis I of France protested, “where in Adam’s will the sea was bequeathed to the Spanish and Portuguese ... envisaged “an unending map, forever scrolling up over ...

For years, claims have circulated that the state of California got its name from a fictional island depicted in a 16th-century Spanish romance ... Geography and Map Division) At the time of ...

Most maps which have attempted ... In the 20 th Century, a treasure trove of metal objects was discovered, proving a detachment of about 1800 Spanish soldiers and Mexican Indian allies of ...