Situated on a forested hilltop in northern Germany, Sparrenburg Castle has towered overthe surrounding city for over 700 years. But, as archaeologists were recently reminded, even such a prominent ...

famously served as the inspiration for Disneyland’s Sleeping Beauty Castle. Built on a rock ledge over the Pöllat Gorge on the site of two smaller castles, the medieval-style Neuschwanstein ...