Crimea Island (or rather a peninsula) escaped coverage in the Western media for many years, mostly due to the mess created by the communist's rule. When the German Baron von Steinheil saw the place in 1911, however, he immediately ordered his architect to design a structure worthy of Neuschwanstein Castle and put it on the prominent Aurora cliff, overlooking the cape of Ai-Todor.

However in recent years it's been fully restored and now houses an Italian Restaurant

Perhaps today this castle does not look as enchanting as in 1900s due to famously shabby Ukranian development all around it.

yet hop on one of these cute water taxis and head over to Nikitsk Botanical Gardens

You can still watch sunsets over the Black Sea