1. Boldt Castle on Heart Island, New York
The castle was built by a man named George Boldt as an expression of his love for his wife, Louise. Precisely on Valentine's Day 1905 George Boldt gave her five acres and Development Boldt castle on an island. One year before the Boldt Castle will be completed, Louise, age 41, meninggal.Karena heartbreak, George Boldt to stop construction and never returned to the island
2. Taj-Mahal di Agra, India
Built by Mumtaz Mahal, Emperor Shah Jahan for his wife mendiam. Because of his love so that when the departure of his wife he felt lost love. Finally he was membangunan Taj Mahal when in fact this building is a tomb that would be the most magnificent monuments ever built by man for a woman
3. Swallow Nest Castle: “Castle of Love” di Krimea, Ukraina
This castle was originally named Castle of Love and was built in 1912. Not yet known who built this castle. But from the various stories that the castle was once a log cabin building and eventually built it is today. The castle itself is designed for couples who want to making love
4. Dobroyd Castle di Todmorden, Inggris
The castle was built by John files * den, the son of a rich man to his lover, Ruth Stansfield, a local weaver girl. It started when, John files * den fall in love with the girl and proposed. However, the girl willing to marry when John promises and willing to build a castle on the hill. In this building many initial engraved their names, John and Ruth, JFR as a witness of their love. After the death of his wife, John married again and had paralysis that he spend his life on a wheelchair
5. Kellie’s Castle di Batu Gajah, Malaysia
Kellie's Castle are among the oldest buildings in Malaysia and the castle built by William Kellie Smith for his wife Agnes. Its construction began in 1915, combining three architectural styles - Greco-Roman, Moorish, and Indian. A Spanish flu epidemic killed most of the 70 construction workers India.Akhirnya Kellie Smith build a Hindu temple near the fort to please the people of India and to start re-construction.
6. Stratford Castle di Durban, Afrika Selatan
Stratford Castle in Durban, South Africa, now placed in Camelot Residential and Golf Estate. Immortal words: "But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never changes." The fort was built on the spirit of beautiful words
7. Mystery Castle di Phoenix, Arizona
Mystery Castle is a castle that was built for a princess. Her story is quite sad. Boyce Gulley ran away from his home in Seattle because of pain after diagnosis with tuberculosis. He slipped away from his wife and daughter karea do not want them to see it die. With money available, he bought a land at the foot of the mountain. He then spent 16 years to build a castle by hand while waiting to die. He uses natural materials and the remaining artefacts After Boyce died, his daughter, Mary Lou Gulley, finding him is his legacy.
8. Coral Castle di Homestead, Florida
In the early 1920s, a man named Ed Leedskalnin abandoned by his fiancee the day before the wedding mereka.Dia was heartbroken and finally to remember the good times and his love for her lover, he built a castle rock. Leedskalnin worked for 28 years and only perform on the night he set the stone into a castle coral reefs.
9. Winchester Mystery House di San Jose, California
Sarah Winchester, widow of King William Winchester rifles, believing that his life was threatened and that he was haunted by the ghosts of those killed by Winchester rifles. Because the feeling that he was building a house to protect him so that he would be safe and may live forever, or as long as the house was being built.
10. Prasat Phimai di Phimai Hin, Thailand
Legend of Pajitt and Orapima begins when a King who wanted his son to find a istri.Akhirnya prince named Prince Pajitt went looking for his future wife to the countryside for months until he saw the pregnant woman.
Because there should not be married to the woman's status as a widow because he had wanted to marry a child in her womb, the child is born and named Orapima.
At Orapima, aged 16 they are in love but it seems the King does not agree with their marriage. Pajitt Orapima and fled into the forest and inside the forest, the prince killed someone who wants Orapima. Because of a broken heart, he built a sacred place, Prasat Hin Phimai.
Prasat Hin Phimai was built, painted, and carved on the inside with scenes of his life when together with Pajitt. And finally Orapima find a young man he considered to be the reincarnation Pajitt and they lived happily ever after.
11. Candi Prambanan di Jogyakarta, Indonesia
Narrated in the story there is a giant named Bandung Bandawasa who have supernatural powers. He wanted to marry the daughter Rara Jonggrang. For that he should make a statue inside the temple with a thousand in one night. Demand is met by the Bandung Bandawasa. However, Rara Jonggrang cheat so that at the time specified the temple was not finished, not a statue again. Bandung Bandawasa angry and cursed princess Rara Jonggrang complement the thousandth statue.
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