Castles and palaces.

Fairytale castles, royal palaces and fortified houses from Scotland to Japan: Neuschwanstein, Versailles, Windsor, Himeji, the Potala Palace and the châteaux of the Loire. Every one is a 3D model to explore in the browser, and every one can be downloaded to build in Minecraft.

• Neuschwanstein CastleKing Ludwig II's fairytale castle on a crag above the Bavarian Alps…14 September 2026
• Palace of VersaillesLouis XIV's palace at Versailles, 1661–1710: the 670-metre garden front…15 September 2026
• Windsor CastleThe oldest and largest occupied castle in the world: William the…14 September 2026
• Tower of LondonWilliam the Conqueror's White Tower of 1078, the Norman keep at the…14 September 2026
• Eilean Donan CastleThe 13th-century castle on a tidal island where three sea lochs meet in…15 September 2026
• Bran CastleThe 14th-century fortress on a rock above the Bran pass in…14 September 2026
• Hohenzollern CastleThe Prussian royal house's Gothic Revival ancestral castle of 1867, a…15 September 2026
• Burg EltzThe medieval castle on a rock in a wooded Rhineland valley, home to the…15 September 2026
• Peleș CastleKing Carol I's Neo-Renaissance palace in the Carpathian firs, 1883…15 September 2026
• Pena PalaceFerdinand II's Romanticist palace on a Sintra mountaintop, 1854: yellow…15 September 2026
• Alcázar of SegoviaThe 12th-century royal castle on a rocky prow above Segovia, its round…15 September 2026
• Château de ChambordFrancis I's Renaissance hunting palace in the Loire, begun 1519: four…15 September 2026
• Château de ChenonceauThe Renaissance château built across the river Cher in the Loire…15 September 2026
• Schönbrunn PalaceThe Habsburgs' 1,441-room summer palace in Vienna, 1743: a 175-metre…15 September 2026
• Frederiksborg CastleChristian IV's Dutch Renaissance palace of 1620, rising from a lake on…15 September 2026
• Himeji CastleThe White Heron Castle of 1609, Japan's finest surviving feudal castle…15 September 2026
• Potala PalaceThe Dalai Lamas' fortress-palace on the Red Hill of Lhasa, 1645–94…15 September 2026
• Hawa MahalThe Palace of Winds in Jaipur, 1799: a five-storey pink sandstone…15 September 2026
• Doge's PalaceThe Gothic seat of the Venetian Republic, 1340–1442: two arcaded…15 September 2026
• Diocletian's PalaceA fortified limestone palace with square and octagonal towers…13 September 2026
• Royal Pavilion, BrightonJohn Nash's seaside pleasure palace for George IV, 1823: an…14 September 2026
• Blenheim PalaceVanbrugh's English Baroque palace, completed 1722 as the nation's gift…15 September 2026
• Highclere CastleHighclere Castle is a honey-coloured stone Elizabethan Revival mansion…13 September 2026
• Hearst CastleCasa Grande is a monumental Mediterranean Revival house with pale ivory…13 September 2026
• Kylemore AbbeyThe 1868 Gothic Revival castle on the shore of Pollacappul Lough in…15 September 2026

Original photographs and plans stay private; what you are looking at is the 3D reconstruction. Each model is an interpretation of a building, not a survey of it.