Château d'Ussé, France

White tuffeau stone, a cluster of pointed slate turrets and tall chimneys at the edge of the Chinon forest, above the Indre valley in the Loire region. Ussé is known as the Sleeping Beauty castle. The legend comes from Charles Perrault, who published the tale in the 1690s and is said to have stayed here as a guest of the castle's owner. Tradition holds that its towers were the ones he imagined, though that link is a story the castle tells rather than documented fact. Built on the foundations of an older fortress and reworked from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, it is still a private family home, and a series of rooms stages scenes from the tale with costumed figures, which makes it a fun stop for anyone traveling with children.