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No Image Available The Queen's Trap Door and her Secret Lovers Castel Nuovo Italy 66 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Workmen Killed to Keep a Secret? Karlštejn Germany 65 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Built from the Stones one of the 7 Ancient Wonders of the World Bodrum Castle Turkey 64 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Can you Stop a Pandemic by Beseiging the Infected? Belgrade Fortress Serbia 61 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Mysteries of the Blood Countess Burg Lockenhaus Austria 60 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Human Skeletons Amassed on Wooden Spikes Leap Castle Ireland 59 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Jauhar is the act of mass self-immolation by women to avoid capture, enslavement and rape by foreign invaders. Jaisalmer Fort India 59 Castle Keeper
No Image Available "Fairy Castle" - a Monastery or a Maiden's Refuge from Forced Marriage? Fairy Castle Azerbaijan 58 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Beating the Unstoppable Mongols: This Tiny Fortress did what Few Others Could Diaoyucheng China 56 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Freedom is not to be Sold for all the Treasures in the World Lovrijenac Croatia 56 Castle Keeper
No Image Available King Edward III's coup d'état and the Secret Tunnel Nottingham Castle the United Kingdom 56 Castle Keeper
No Image Available World's Largest Bell Has Never Been Rung Moscow Kremlin Russia 54 Castle Keeper
No Image Available The Fort Whose Foundation was Built on Severed Heads of the Mongols Siri Fort India 53 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Persecuted Sect Member Infiltrates Castle and Takes it Over Alamut Castle Iran 51 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Modern Worshippers of a Fire God? Temple of Garni Armenia 51 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Court Jester Assigned to Guard the World's Largest Wine Keg. Heidelberg Castle Germany 50 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Isolated Desert Fortress Holds Back Mongol Horde Qal'at Rahbeh Syria 49 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Castle Converted to POW Camp, Prisoners Build Glider to Escape Colditz Castle Germany 48 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Biological Warfare Karlštejn Germany 46 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Massive Gun Could Shoot 330 Pound Ball 2 Miles Edinburgh Castle the United Kingdom 46 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Largest Ancient Castle Prague Castle Czech Republic 45 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Oldest Wine in the World? Kolossi Castle Cyprus 44 Castle Keeper
No Image Available A Picture Gallery 12 Storeys High Sigiriya Sri Lanka 43 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Ancient Rocks from the Beginning of the World Tiruchirapalli Rock Fort India 41 Castle Keeper
No Image Available The oldest railway in the world is a funicular! Hohensalzburg Fortress Austria 41 Castle Keeper
No Image Available The Leviathan of Parsonstown Birr Castle Ireland 40 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Get Lost in this Huge Hedge Maze Castlewellan Castle Ireland 39 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Biggest Refracting Telescope Markree Castle Ireland 38 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Jesuits Build Pioneering Seismograph Rathfarnham Castle Ireland 37 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Raising Baby Gorillas Rejected by their Mother Wilhelma Germany 36 Castle Keeper
No Image Available The Pope had a Vision of an Angel Atop the Castle, Wiping the Blood from his Sword Castel Sant'Angelo Italy 34 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Dracula's Castle? Bran Castle Romania 33 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Most Beseiged Place in Great Britain Edinburgh Castle the United Kingdom 33 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Biggest Trebuchet in the World Warwick Castle the United Kingdom 31 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Conspiracy Theories, Lost Treasure and the Da Vinci Code Rennes-le-Château France 31 Castle Keeper
No Image Available The Legend of the Regenstein Regenstein Castle Germany 30 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Theft of the Polish-Saxon Jewels Dresden Castle Germany 29 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Last Standing Buildings of an Ancient, Powerful Empire Dover Castle England 28 Castle Keeper
No Image Available The Most Famous Twentieth Century Garden in England Sissinghurst Castle England 26 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Home of the Apocalypse Tapestry, also the Largest Medieval Tapestry Collection Château d'Angers France 26 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Making Wine for 1000 Years? They Ought to be Rather Good at it! Château de Goulaine France 25 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Picasso's One Time Home Holds 245 of his Works Château Grimaldi d'Antibes France 23 Castle Keeper
No Image Available World's Largest Fresco Depicts Cannons, Cannibals and Crocodiles Würzburg Residence Germany 23 Castle Keeper
No Image Available This Isolated, Ancient Desert Citadel was the World's First Adobe Castle Izad-Khast Castle Iran 21 Castle Keeper
No Image Available One of the Oldest and Largest Castles Threatened by Modern War. Citadel of Aleppo Syria 21 Castle Keeper
No Image Available The Ravages of Pestilence and a Monastic Center of Learning Hirsau Abbey Germany 20 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Exorcisms, Ghost-Hunters and Bones in the Closet Franklin Castle the United States 19 Castle Keeper
No Image Available The Faithful lover and the Ghost in the Well Himeji Castle Japan 18 Castle Keeper
No Image Available The Horrifying Vengeance of Vlad the Impaler Poenari Castle Romania 18 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Ghost of "The Lady's Stairs" Antrim Castle Ireland 17 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Claim: "World’s most haunted location" Leap Castle Ireland 16 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Legend of the Mauthe Doog Peel Castle Norway 15 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Legend of the Princess Tower Castle of Bragança Portugal 14 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Palace Ghost: the White Lady Stockholm Palace Sweden 13 Castle Keeper
No Image Available The Ghost Y Ladi Wen is Said to Guard the Castle's Hidden Treasure Ogmore Castle Wales 12 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Roasting of the Commendator of Crossraguel Dunure Castle Scotland 11 Castle Keeper
No Image Available The Venus of Murány Muráň Castle Slovakia 10 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Touching Poem or Superstitiously Barbaric Legend? Rozafa Castle Albania 10 Castle Keeper
No Image Available The Secret Water Supply Amberd Armenia 8 Castle Keeper
No Image Available The Dead Huntsman, the Bride and the Ley Tunnel Kingencleugh Castle Scotland 8 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Hungarian Castle Stops the Mongols Bratislava Castle Slovakia 6 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Spanish Inquisition: Arab baths Converted into Torture Chambers Alcázar de los Reyes Cristianos Spain 6 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Nazi Myths, the Holy Grail, and Other Foolishness Wewelsburg Germany 5 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Tallest Hedges? Wikipedia Might be Wrong Birr Castle Ireland 4 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Longest Castle Burghausen Castle Germany 3 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Extravagant Palace Built to Provide Employment and Assauage Famine Umaid Bhawan Palace India 2 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Castle Festival Makes Largest Pudding Halton-with-Aughton England 1 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Sad Tale of the Flower Witch Riegersburg Castle Austria 0 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Mass Arrest of Homeless Children, Charged as Witches Moosham Castle Austria 0 Castle Keeper
No Image Available Forbidden Lovers on the Run Excommunicated by Father Rumbeke Castle Belgium 0 Castle Keeper
No Image Available The Croatian Romeo and Juliette Vitturi Castle Croatia 0 Castle Keeper
No Image Available 17th Century Pins were Used for Magical Purposes and had a Role in the Pendle Witch Trial Clitheroe Castle England 0 Tester1