Mysteries at the Castle

A foreboding Transylvanian castle provides the chilling inspiration for an infamous literary villain; a stunning French chateau incites a bitter rivalry between two powerful women; and a mythical monarch steps-into the real world at a breathtaking English Abbey.

An English palace that was the setting for a royal tale of lust and power is toured. Also: an ornate New York arsenal that supposedly fell victim to a curse; and the story of the Mechanical Turk's debut in the late 18th century.

Included: the legend of Faust's pact with the Devil; the story of an Irish pirate queen; and the construction of the first Versailles.

A tale of jealousy and murder that played out in an enchanting French castle; a brazen act of treachery that led to bloody revenge at an ominous Italian fort; and the English fortress that inspired a heroic outlaw.

The story of a secret chamber within a British manor that helped keep a fugitive king safe from execution. Also: the launching ground for Joan of Arc's mission to save France; and a New York estate's role in one of America's first political sex scandals.

The elegant halls of Tranby Croft; an English manor; Bardi Castle; Artstetten Castle.

Holland’s Loevestein Castle; Oxford Castle; tropical retreat in Key West.

A mountaintop abbey in France is the setting of an audacious robbery that baffles investigators; a shocking tale of marital double-dealing unfolds at an English estate; and the owner of an opulent Kansas mansion concocts a supposed wonder drug.

A looming German castle; a palatial British estate; French chateau.

A French chateau in a well-known romance; a Scottish castle and a daring experiment; a desperate manhunt.

An Irish manor is ransacked in one of the largest art heists the world has ever seen; a French chateau plays host to the illicit affair of a literary superstar; and a hilltop German castle is at the center of a tale of fraud.

Wealthy widow Mary Eleanor Bowes falls prey to a scheme by fraudster Andrew Robinson Stoney who plotted marriage to steal her fortune at Glamis Castle in Glamis, Scotland. Lonely outcast-tuned-famous painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec changes the art world forever and it all began at his childhood home, Château du Bosc in Aveyron, France. Architectural genius, Frank Lloyd Wright designs Graycliff Estate in Derby, New York, drawing inspiration on his time in Tokyo when he developed an earthquake-proof building. When a chief of the Clan MacLeod weds a fairy princess, a legendary love story and a magical flag unfurls through the generations at Dunvegan Castle in Isle of Skye, Scotland. Casa Loma in Toronto, Canada becomes a covert site of an ultra-top secret operation to develop sonar devices during the Second World War. After the new United States places a tax on whiskey, radical leader David Bradford forms a militia causing a conflict that comes to a head at his home, the Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana.

An aviator's beautiful French castle; an opulent English retreat; a secluded Colorado estate.