Somewhere between Louisville and Lexington, just off I-71 in Crestwood, there’s a 60-acre botanical garden with an actual stone castle that looks like it was photoshopped into Kentucky by someone with a really good imagination and questionable geography skills.
Yew Dell Botanical Gardens is so unexpectedly beautiful and surreal that first-time visitors often wonder if they’ve accidentally stumbled into a movie set or a very elaborate prank.
The castle at Yew Dell is the kind of structure that makes you do a double-take, then a triple-take, then pull out your phone to make sure you’re actually still in Kentucky and haven’t somehow been transported to the European countryside.
It features honest-to-goodness turrets, the conical kind that princesses are supposed to be trapped in while waiting for rescue…