More than 25,000 castles crown the hills of Germany, so it can be difficult to choose which ones to visit. If you're seeking the best in terms of history and opulence, drive the nearly 479-mile ...

Colditz Castle, a forbidding medieval edifice near ... up to three weeks in solitary confinement. Yet for the most part their German captors—led by the good-natured head of security Reinhold ...