NEW YORK — When he first arrived at the gothic-style Cathedral of St. John the Divine last year as interim dean, Monsignor Clifton Daniel III asked to see the basement. Maybe his dark curiosity ...

WASHINGTON – They are angelic and mischievous. They are earthly and heavenly. And they are all watching as visitors move around the grounds of the National Cathedral. They are the gargoyles and ...

Crane your neck at the cathedral, or even take one of their gargoyle tours, and you might also see a wild boar, a turtle, a dragon, or one of the roughly 1,200 other roof dwellers. One of Alonso's ...

Renowned for being an animated show that didn’t talk down to children, but instead lifted them up into deep, dark storytelling, an attempt at bringing Gargoyles back for modern audiences has ...

The Washington National Cathedral is home to about 1,242 stone carvings. Here’s a look at some of the most interesting gargoyles and grotesques that call the building home.

Like the rest of the cathedral, built in the 14th-century Gothic style, the gargoyles are carved of Indiana limestone. According to Wendy Gasch, a local ophthalmologist who just finished a book ...

Two lion's-head gargoyles, painted white, can be seen to the right of the ornate top of the 1892 Old Talladega City Hall. The year 1892 is in the center of the white shield.

From Darth Vader on the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., to stone dragons in China's Forbidden City, behold some of the most unexpected and unique grotesques and gargoyles from around the ...

The 5.8-magnitude earthquake that famously shook D.C. in 2011 sent the head of a gargoyle atop the Washington National Cathedral flying. “All that energy was going up the walls,” head mason at ...

WASHINGTON — Stonemasons at the Washington National Cathedral worked to repair a gargoyle that lost its head during a 5.8 magnitude earthquake back in 2011. On the 12th anniversary of the quake ...