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Black Sea Castle, Yalta, Russia/Ukraine, 1987

Photograph by Steve Raymer

The neo-Gothic Swallow's Nest castle perches 130 feet (40 meters) above the Black Sea near Yalta in southern Ukraine. Built by a German noble in 1912, the flamboyant seaside residence now houses an Italian restaurant.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Ukraine," May 1987, National Geographic magazine)