26Rose Leslie's Castle
Actress Rose Leslie who played Ygritte in Game of Thrones, grew up in Lickleyhead Castle, her family's 15th-century ancestral seat in Aberdeen, Scotland. She is a descendant of Charles II.
27. In the ancient Indian Kingdom of Golconda, King Ibrahim Wali designed and built a fortress city so acoustically perfect that a hand clap at the fortress gates could be heard at the top of the citadel itself, located on the summit of a 300-foot hill.
28. The Nijō Palace in Kyoto has special floors that squeak when walked upon, a sound that is very similar to the Nightingale birds. So when attackers tried to kill the Shogun, they gave their position away, but only thought that the birds outside were chirping.
29. Herodium in Jerusalem is a massive palace-fortress which was built on an artificial mountain by Herod the Great, way back in 15 B.C. It consisted of four 7-story towers, a bathhouse with three temperatures, courtyards, a full Roman theatre, banquet rooms, a full Roman garden, a 2x Olympic size swimming pool, and more.
30. Fort Saint-Jean in Marseille, France was built with cannons facing the city, not the sea, due to constant uprisings.
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31China's Old Summer Palace
China's Old Summer Palace was a complex of palaces that was 8 times the size of the Vatican. Deemed the pinnacle of Chinese gardens, it contained exquisite artworks and many historical treasures. In 1860, the British sacked and looted the Palace for 3 days, turning it into its current state of ruination.
32. Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace have horological conservators. Their job is to check the 400 clock as at Windsor Castle and 600 clocks at Buckingham Palace daily. They wind them all once a week, and reset them for Daylight Savings Time. The clocks in their kitchen, however, are set 5 minutes fast to ensure the food comes out on time.
33. The pope has a summer/vacation home known as the Palace of Castel Gandolfo and it is technically an exclave of Vacation City.
34. The 15th-Century Islamic mosaics in Spain's Alhambra palace display a near-perfect understanding of mathematical logic and 16 of 17 types of symmetry identified by modern mathematicians.
35. The mysterious 120-ton boulder walls of an ancient fortress in Sacsayhuaman, Peru have survived thousands of years, including earthquakes, in part, because they "fit together with such precision you can’t fit a piece of paper between them."
