On a high ridge of the Otago Peninsula, overlooking a long harbour on the southern coast of New Zealand’s South Island, stands the only castle in the entire country. Larnach

In Vadodara stands Laxmi Vilas, an Indo-Saracenic palace several times the size of Buckingham Palace, built by a reforming maharaja and still home to the Gaekwad dynasty.

Explore Lednice Chateau in southern Moravia, a fairy-tale neo-Gothic palace of the House of Liechtenstein, set within one of Europe’s largest designed landscapes with a minaret, a palm house, and romantic follies.

“L’état, c’est moi” — “I am the state.” Whether or not Louis XIV ever actually uttered those words, they have clung to him for three centuries because they capture the

Explore Ludwigsburg Palace near Stuttgart, one of Germany’s largest baroque palaces, known as the Swabian Versailles for its vast halls, historic theatre, and blooming gardens.

Once a Renaissance city hall, Luxembourg’s Grand Ducal Palace is the ornate old-town seat of the world’s only grand duchy.

How a royal vow, a fortune in Brazilian gold, and tens of thousands of labourers raised Portugal’s colossal Mafra National Palace.

Mahmud of Ghazni, the first Turkish ruler to use the title of Sultan, is also the commander who honored India with Islam. It is no wonder that the sultan, who

Stand on the north bank of the Pasig River as it winds through Manila, and you will find a rambling white building screened by acacia and mahogany trees, its wide

Prepare to have your sense of scale recalibrated. Malbork, on the flat plain of northern Poland, is the largest castle in the world measured by land area, and the largest