The world-famous Neuschwanstein Castle is characterized by its idyllic location on a craggy cliff and its medieval facade. Originally, the castle was built by King Ludwig II as a private retreat.

Neuschwanstein Castle, the nineteenth-century Romanesque Revival palace built for King Ludwig II on a rugged cliff, with scenic mountain landscape near Fussen, Bavaria, Germany. Eltz Castle ...

More than 25,000 castles crown the hills of Germany, so it can be difficult ... (Getty Images)| Princess fantasies come to life at Neuschwanstein, a 19th-century castle in the Bavarian Alps ...