Next time you're at the beach, take a look around: You may spy a mermaid with long, tangled hair or a dragon with pointy ears and flared nostrils. If you get lucky, you'll come across an actual castle ...

Some of us are happy at the beach with our overturned sand buckets creating various mounds. Dig a trench around the sand mounds, and voila! A castle and moat. That’s nowhere near good enough for a ...

The Gist: Little Jana (Riman Al Rafeea) has converted the scrub and sand of this island space and the blue-green sea that surrounds it into a fantastical world of whimsy and imagined castles. It’s her ...

Is building an impregnable sand castle on your family’s summer bucket list? Ted Siebert of The Sand Sculpture Co. (sandsculpting.com) can dig you out of the holes in your technique. Siebert, who wrote ...