Travel

PHOTOGRAPHY BY SIMON CHAPMAN AND THE AUTHOR After researching Scottish fairy sites from the lowlands of Edinburgh and Stirling to the Highlands of Bute and...

PHOTOGRAPHY BY SIMON CHAPMAN AND THE AUTHOR MERMAID MURMURS Cornwall is bordered by the sea on three sides. You can scarcely get more than twenty...

PHOTOGRAPHER HAKARYO WITH AMARIS PHOTOGRAPHY MODEL ZING RUBY Japan: culture of both Miyazaki's mythic forests and trend-setting Tokyo. It’s a land of creative expression, and one...

MAGICAL DESTINATIONS We asked a few of our favorite authors to tell us about the most enchanted places they’ve ever been.  This is what they came...

“Do you remember the Shire, Mr. Frodo? It’ll be spring soon. And the orchards will be in blossom. And the birds will be nesting...

Photography by Inge Bovens Elves and fairies have long embraced the magic of the forest, living as they do under wild mushrooms and toadstools, on...

Feature Image: Red House, Bexleyheath painted by Walter Crane. Wikimedia Commons. Perhaps of all the words ever said by a Pre-Raphaelite, the most frequently repeated...

I’ve lived many places, but thus far Salem, Massachusetts, was the only one where no one ever asked where I’d come from. There are...

When art director Lisa Gill showed me an Instagram post about Castle Mont Rouge—an unfinished real-life castle in the wilds of North Carolina—I insisted we had to see it for ourselves. Artist Robert Mihaly responded to my missive and agreed to show us his astonishing creation in person.

“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of a library.” —Jorge Luis Borges   I remember my first vision of the paradise Borges...