With its teal-topped turrets and warm stone façade, oozing fantasy, Slovakia’s Bojnice Castle will take your breath away. The castle is one of the most visited in the world, welcoming hundreds of thousands of tourists every year. Its breathtaking fairytale aesthetic has also made it a popular filming location for fantasy movies. Perched on a rocky hill overlooking the town of Bojnice, 167 miles northeast of the country’s capital, Bratislava, Bojnice Castle began its life as a wooden structure. It was developed into a stone castle by the Poznan family in the 13th century, according to the website of the Slovak National Museum, passing through several aristocratic families into the 14th and 15th centuries. In 1527, King Ferdinand I gifted the castle to Alexej Thurzo, whose family gave the gothic building a renaissance transformation. The castle’s last aristocratic owner, Count Jan Frantisek Palfi, decided to revert the estate to a more romantic, …