We saw a lot of beautiful castles, but they were all beautiful in the wrong way. They were cleaned up and spit-shined and ready for tourists to walk through. Or they were complete ruins with no ...

as I did on a recent trek up to the Weissenstein Castle ruins in Steinwald Nature Park in Waldershof, Germany. Approximately 45 minutes northeast of Grafenwoehr, the well-marked, well-maintained ...