Some castles are about beauty. The Tower of London is about power, and it never lets you forget it. For very nearly a thousand years this grim, grey fortress by

Some castles are single buildings; Óbidos is a whole town wrapped in walls. In the center of Portugal, north of Lisbon, rises one of the most enchanting sights in the

High on a great limestone hill above the fairy-tale spires and red roofs of Tallinn stands one of the most historically significant castles in all of the Baltic. Toompea Castle

On a small island in a shining Lithuanian lake, reached by a wooden footbridge and doubled in the still water below, stands one of the most magical castles in all

On a small island in a clear blue lake in the heart of Lithuania, ringed by water and reflected in its still surface, stands one of the most romantic castles

In the green and rolling hills of the Zagorje region in the north of Croatia, rising white and turreted above its own tranquil lake, stands one of the most beautiful

On the banks of the River Boyne, in the green heart of County Meath, stands the largest Anglo-Norman castle in all of Ireland. Trim Castle sprawls across a vast site

On a great hill wrapped almost entirely by a loop of the Yantra River, in the beautiful town of Veliko Tarnovo in northern Bulgaria, stands one of the most important

On a low limestone cliff above the turquoise waters of the Caribbean, on the eastern coast of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, stands one of the most beautifully situated ancient sites in

High on a wooded hill above the winding Gauja River, in a valley so lovely that Latvians call it their Switzerland, rises one of the most beautiful and historic castles