If someone told you there’s a castle with turrets and stone walls sitting in the middle of Kentucky, surrounded by 60 acres of professionally designed gardens, you’d probably assume they’d been sampling too much bourbon.
Yet here we are, and Yew Dell Botanical Gardens in Crestwood is very real, very spectacular, and very much not getting the attention it deserves.
The first time you lay eyes on the castle at Yew Dell, your brain does a little stutter-step trying to reconcile what you’re seeing with what you know about Kentucky geography.
Castles belong in Europe, or maybe at theme parks, or in movies where people wear uncomfortable-looking period costumes and speak in British accents…