🏷️ Castle

5 discoveries

Burgruine Weibertreu

A ruined hilltop castle above Weinsberg named 'wifely loyalty' after an 1140 siege in which the town's women marched their husbands out to safety on their own backs — now a café-topped viewpoint over the vineyards.

📍 Baden-Württemberg, Weinsberg 💴 Paid ⏱ ≈ 1 hour

🏛️ Museum

Deutsches Elfenbeinmuseum (German Ivory Museum)

Europe's only museum devoted entirely to ivory carving, built into a Baroque castle in the Odenwald town that turned imported tusks into a 250-year craft tradition.

📍 Hesse, Erbach (Odenwald) 💴 Paid ⏱ ≈ 1 hour

📜 History

Burg Wildeck

A hilltop castle above the wine town of Abstatt that survived the Peasants' War and the Thirty Years' War, then quietly became a state-run vineyard laboratory breeding new German wine grapes.

📍 Baden-Württemberg, Abstatt 🆓 Free ⏱ ≈ 1 hour

🛸 Oddity

Bishop Castle

A 160-foot stone castle with a fire-breathing dragon and swaying iron bridges, hand-built by one stubborn man over 50 years in the Colorado mountains — free to climb.

📍 Colorado, Rye 🎫 Donation ⏱ ≈ 1 hour

📜 History

Kaminoyama Castle & Onsen

A storybook white castle keep crowning a green hill above a 560-year-old hot-spring town threaded with free street footbaths — climb the tower for valley views, then soak your feet on a bench in the lane below.

📍 Yamagata, Kaminoyama 💴 Paid ⏱ Half day

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