In the depths of the Fram Strait between Greenland and Norway's Svalbard, scientists have been perplexed by a peculiar phenomenon: mysterious octagon-shaped marks imprinted across the seabed. These ...

Explore a unique abandoned octagon-shaped house with its unusual architecture, forgotten rooms, and traces of the past. This ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I think old houses, and the people who love them, are fascinating. Designers, architects, inventers and imaginative homeowners are ...

When Orson Squire Fowler wrote his book, “Home for All, or A New, Cheap, Convenient, and Superior Mode of Building” in 1848, he argued that octagon-shaped houses were not only healthier, but also ...

Architectural trends come and go. Sheboygan Falls is blessed with more than two dozen outstanding examples of Greek Revival-style buildings common here from the 1830s to the 1860s. Plymouth has a ...