Some castles are famous for a single thing. Kenilworth is famous for at least three, and any one of them would earn it a place in the history books. It

High on the edge of the great plateau of Moab, east of the Dead Sea, there stands one of the largest and most famous of all the castles the Crusaders

Picture yourself stepping off a small wooden boat onto a low, green island just off the coast of southern Tanzania. The water behind you is the colour of turquoise glass,

Far out in the South Pacific, midway between Australia, New Zealand, and New Caledonia, a small green island rises from the sea. On its southern shore, where gentle bays meet

On a great hill in the west of Syria, commanding the land for miles around, stands what is widely regarded as the finest and most famous castle ever built by

Some castles are famous for their history, and some for their beauty, but Kronborg is famous for a ghost that never existed. This great Renaissance fortress on the northern tip

High on a limestone ridge in the cloud forests of northern Peru, wrapped in mist and hung with orchids, stand the towering walls of one of the most extraordinary and

There are castles that were built to be admired and castles that were built to be feared, and Kumamoto belongs firmly, unforgettably, to the second kind. Rising black and stern

In the wide brown waters of the Gambia River, some thirty kilometres upstream from the Atlantic, lies a tiny island so small you could walk around its ruins in a

On a green island in Lake Vänern, the largest lake in Sweden, stands a castle so white and so graceful that it looks as though it has stepped straight out