Back in the day, you were nothing without your own fortress — and so much of Europe is covered with castles — or, more accurately, the ruins of castles. But now, many of these former grand residences ...

There it is in the distance: a crumbling castle or skeletal church wall majestically perched on a seaside cliff or rising silently from the middle of a windswept moor. Get closer, and walk through the ...

Castle ruins invite you to ramble the ramparts and let your imagination roam. Climbing through waist-high weeds on rubble corralled by surviving walls, you can break off a spiky frond and live a sword ...

Located near Maastricht, Valkenburg aan de Geul enchants visitors with its underground Roman caves, hilltop castle ruins, and ...

One of the most iconic "non-lake" images from the Lake of the Ozarks region is the Castle Ruins at Ha Ha Tonka State Park in Camdenton. In the early 1900s, a wealthy businessman from Kansas City named ...

Kaliningrad, Russia’s westernmost region, which used to be German territory, has numerous castle ruins of the Teutonic knights. Centuries later, local enthusiasts are trying to save what's left of ...

Ludlow Castle has housed countless influential personalities across the centuries, including Roger Mortimer, who partnered with Queen Isabella to depose her spouse, Edward II, in 1327. During the 15th ...

Ludlow is a beautiful market town in Shropshire, which has everything you could want, from regular food festivals to historic ...

Archaeologists have been stunned by the discovery of Roman coins in the ruins of a Japanese castle. The coins were excavated from the ruins of Katsuren Castle in Okinawa Prefecture, according to the ...

Most of Europe's castles have long been discovered by travelers. These can be fun, offering battle re-enactments, sound-and-light shows, catapult demos, dress-up costumes, fake garden parties, wagon ...