Ceiling painting at Bruchsal Palace – On Castles, Ruins and Palaces!

Sommersdorf Castle

Mummies and guestrooms: Accommodation at the moated castle in Sommersdorf comes with bragging rights and creepy party stories.
Flak Towers of Vienna

Adolf Hitler’s modern castles: These 20th century fortifications were designed to withstand a direct hit of an aerial bomb.
Dubrovnik

The cradle of freedom: Dubrovnik, and how it rose from a refugee settlement to the first state that abolished slavery to one of the first states that recognized the United States of America as an independent nation.