Don't miss the world's most beautiful castles in Romania.

In Sinaia, a small mountain town near Bucharest, Romania's capital, sits the 19th-century Peles Castle. Romanians consider it "the most beautiful place in the motherland," and world travelers hail it as "one of the most beautiful castles in the world." Peles Castle is a Gothic structure, tall and slender yet warmed by wooden materials. Surrounded by colorful forests and mountain mist, it's comparable to Neuschwanstein Castle at the beginning of a Disney animation.