Rambagh Palace in Jaipur, the Jewel of the Pink City, was the glamorous home of the maharajas and now a legendary palace hotel. Explore its marble halls, Mughal gardens and royal history.

Ramnagar Fort faces the holy ghats of Varanasi across the Ganges, the ancestral home of the Maharajas of Benares. Explore its Mughal architecture, curious museum, astronomical clock and famous Ramlila.

In the mountains of northern Haiti stand the ruins of Sans-Souci, the baroque palace of Henri Christophe, a former slave who crowned himself king and built a court to rival Europe’s.

There is a small yellow palace on a hill in Potsdam that was never meant to impress anyone. That, oddly, is what makes it unforgettable. When you climb the six

Shaniwar Wada in Pune was the mighty fortress-seat of the Peshwas of the Maratha Empire. Explore its spiked gates, lost palace, haunting legend and the grandeur of a vanished power.

Just outside Bukhara stands the Palace of the Moon and the Stars, the summer retreat of the last emirs, where Bukharan craft and imperial Russian taste met on the eve of the monarchy’s fall.

In the very heart of Munich, the capital of Bavaria, stands one of the largest and most magnificent city palaces in all of Germany, a sprawling complex of buildings, courtyards,

Discover Smolenice Castle in the forested Little Carpathians of Slovakia, a romantic early-twentieth-century fairy-tale castle built by the Palffy family on medieval foundations.

By the river in Thimphu rises Tashichho Dzong, a white fortress-monastery that is at once the throne room of Bhutan’s king, the seat of its government, and the home of its chief abbot.

Discover the Archbishops Chateau at Kromeriz in Moravia, a grand baroque palace with a world-class painting gallery and two of Europe’s finest historic gardens, a UNESCO World Heritage treasure.