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Modern Castles

Kingfisher's Tower

Cooperstown, New York

Kingfisher Tower

A sewing machine tycoon built this miniature castle for the people and to beautify a lakeshore.

Bude Castle

A quirky "castle" formerly belonging to a famous British inventor.

Several crescent moons in limestone.

Homestead, Florida

Ed Leedskalnin's Coral Castle

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

Broadway, England

Broadway Tower and Nuclear Bunker

A petite castle folly in the English countryside.

The Magic Castle at night

Los Angeles, California

The Magic Castle

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

Antonito, Colorado

Cano's Castle

Gleaming self-built castle towers made from beer cans and inspired by "Vitamin Mary Jane."

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Pullman, Washington

The Junk Castle

A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.

wax sculptures

Tahouitet El Ghadir, Lebanon

Moussa Castle

Lebanese castle built by one man, over a lifetime.

East Haddam, Connecticut

Gillette Castle State Park

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

GAR Building.

Detroit, Michigan

Grand Army of the Republic Building

Detroit’s downtown castle is one of the oldest structures in the city.

Harry Andrews' Chateau Laroche

A castle built by an eccentric medieval enthusiast in suburban Ohio.

Burk's Falls, Ontario

Midlothian Castle

A school teacher's massive and terrifying self-built castle.

Eureka Springs, Arkansas

Quigley's Castle

The Ozarks' strangest dwelling.

Gloucester, Massachusetts

Hammond Castle Museum

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

Photographed by Arpad Horvath, June 2006

Székesfehérvár, Hungary

Bory Castle

Hungarian self-built castle.

Albion Castle from the front of the property

San Francisco, California

Albion Castle

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

Beacon, New York

Bannerman's Castle

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

Bishop Castle

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.