10 Video Game Locations You Didn't Know Actually Exist

7. Schloss Ritter (Gabriel Knight: Sins Of The Fathers)/ Schloss Neuschwanstein (Füssen, Germany)

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Hunting the trail of the fabled Schattenjäger, New Orleans' novelist Gabriel Knight jets off to Germany, wiping his snowy shoes on the welcome mat of Schloss Ritter in his search for answers.

The Romanesque castle is heavily reminiscent of Schloss Neuschwanstein, Ludwig II's opulent winter retreat deep in the heart of Bavaria. In reality, Knight wouldn't have been able to drive right up to the door - not without mowing down about a million tourists, anyway.

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