Ever walked through a castle museum and wished you could stay the night? Turns out, you don't need royal blood or a time ...

TYKOCIN, Poland – Fanciful turrets flank the thick fortress walls. A cannon sits in the courtyard. Inside the castle in the eastern Polish town of Tykocin, there are brand-new electric ovens, modern ...

For centuries, medieval castles – hulking, isolated triumphs of masonry – have held a special place in the Western imagination, evoking at once a sense of history, fantasy, war and romance. They are ...

Germany's Neushwanstein is a textbook-like example of 19th-century Romanticism. In 1869, King Ludwig began building his medieval fantasy on the hilltop not for defensive reasons, but because he liked ...

A previously unknown medieval castle has emerged from the Swiss landscape after a researcher studying high-resolution terrain maps identified telltale features of an early fortification near ...

Nestled between Austin and Houston, this castle began as a labor of love but is now a fully operational tourist destination, ...

When thinking about castles, one continent comes to mind: Europe. From the many castles in England, which are among the oldest in the world, to the beautiful palaces in France, every country on this ...

The island of Cyprus carries a long history mirrored through archaeological sites scattered in between its cities and the ...

Germany's Neushwanstein is a textbook-like example of 19th-century Romanticism. In 1869, King Ludwig began building his medieval fantasy on the hilltop not for defensive reasons, but because he liked ...