While the Castelo dos Mouros crowns one hill and the famed Palácio da Pena graces another, Monte Sereno is home to this remarkable neo-Gothic “castle,” originally built in the 1920s by renowned ...

Deep in the heart of rural Florida, where GPS signals falter and cattle outnumber people, a gleaming medieval fortress rises from the palmetto scrub like a mirage in the subtropical heat.

Hidden in the rolling foothills of Amador County stands a magnificent red brick fortress that seems to have materialized from another century and continent entirely – a Romanesque revival castle whose ...