NORTHERN BURGUNDY, France — Deep in a forest of France's Burgundy region, a group of enthusiasts is building a medieval castle the old-fashioned way — that is, with tools and methods from the late ...

Alan Taylor is a senior editor at The Atlantic.

When I was young, I loved to create things with building blocks. Of all the structures I built, I probably built more castles than any other. However, medieval castles are basically just walls and ...

When I was a kid I never really got the chance to build a LEGO set. What I had was a huge tub of LEGO bricks of all different shapes, sizes, and colors that got handed down to me. There weren't any ...