These Welsh castles were built for royalty, and now you can visit them for a fairy-tale vacation. Sometimes called the "Land of Castles" and "Castle Capital of the World," Wales once had about 600 ...

It was styled like the monumental Romanesque knight's castle, with the swan as a recurring symbol of the decor. Incidentally, the extraordinary building of the "fairy tale king" Ludwig II also ...

Sylvain Sonnet/Corbis Today’s Google Doodle honoree, Charles Perrault, is credited with helping invent the modern fairy tale. The author ... Sleeping Beauty—a castle that’s now filled ...