List of fictional airborne castles

The idea of cities floating in gas giants was popularized by the Star Wars movie The Empire Strikes Back, in which a gas mine floats in the atmosphere of the planet Bespin. Another notable example is the antigravity-supported City of Stratos, in the Star Trek episode The Cloud Minders. In Stargate Atlantis the title city floats on an ocean (although it is actually a fully functional interstellar spaceship). The main setting in Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy is a giant dome shaped city that is a spaceship. In the Beast Wars of the Transformers universe, the Vok build an observational flying land structure on which are a garden and a number of buildings.
In Ringworld series, floating cities are all that remain of the ancient inhabitants of the Ringworld. In James Blish's series Cities in Flight, the invention of the spindizzy allows cities like New York to leave Earth and roam the universe.

Below is a list of fictional airborne castles, which does not include pure space stations.

Folk Tales
* The giant's castle in the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk, later incorporated into the comic book series Fables

Books
* Laputa in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726)
* The castle in Serbian fairy-tale Castle neither on sky nor on ground (Ð§Ð°Ñ€Ð´Ð°Ðº Ð½Ð¸ Ð½Ð° Ð½ÐµÐ±Ñƒ Ð½Ð¸ Ð½Ð° Ð·ÐµÐ¼Ñ™Ð¸/ÄŒardak ni na nebu ni na zemlji)
* Morrolan's castle "Castle Black" in Steven Brust's books about Vlad Taltos (starting 1983)
* Howl's castle in Howl's Moving Castle (1986) and sequel Castle in the Air (1990) (by Diana Wynne Jones).
* The Flying Citadel used by the Dragonarmies in the Dragonlance novels
* The abandoned flying castle which crashed in the mountains in With A Single Spell by Lawrence Watt-Evans (1987).
* Cloud Club in Another Day, Another Dungeon by Greg Costikyan.
* The flying/moving cities in Philip Reeve's novel Mortal Engines (2001) and its subsequent sequels.
* Heidelberg in Cloud Castles by Michael Scott Rohan
* The Castle in the Air in The Phantom Tollbooth (1961) by Norton Juster

Video Games
* The Flying Fortress/Sky Castle in Final Fantasy (1987)
** The Tower of Zott in Final Fantasy IV apparantly is somewhere in the sky (as seen by the airship going straight up to reach it).
** The Lonka Ruins in Final Fantasy V as well as some of the castles pulled into The Void.
** The Floating Continent of the famous Final Fantasy VI.
** Ultimecia's castle in Final Fantasy VIII (1999).
* Dalaam in Earthbound.
* Township in Breath of Fire 2.
* Zenithia castle in the Dragon Quest series (1986)
* The air castle, known as Air Castle, which once floated above the planet Parma of the Phantasy Star series (1987).
* An unnamed floating tower in Crystalis (1990).
* The Sky Palace, found in the Act Raiser games (1990).
* Fort Bird-man in E.V.O.: Search for Eden (1992).
* The Mana Fortress in Secret of Mana (1993)
* Nimbus Land in Super Mario RPG (1996)
** Bowser's Castle is capable of turning into a floating castle in many of the Mario Bros games, including Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
* The floating Doom Island on which the Fortress of Doom was found in Lufia & the Fortress of Doom (1993) and its prequel Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals (1996).
* The Sky Sanctuary in Sonic & Knuckles (1994).
* The floating kingdom of Zeal in Chrono Trigger (1995)
* The Castle That Never Was in Kingdom Hearts II (2005).
* In the MMORPG MapleStory, the primary "airport" for the Maple World is the city of Orbis, a Greco-Roman style castle area that floats in the sky.
* 'Academy' towns in Heroes of Might and Magic V (2006).
* City in the sky in the Wii game Twilight princess (2006).
* Floating City of Vane in the Lunar Series (1990s-2006)
* In the 1998 PC game Unreal, the natives, known as Nali, have a floating settlement above the planet Gryphon called "Na Pali Haven" complete with a river, farms, and a town center.
* The Citadel in Crusaders of Might and Magic (1999)
* Neameeto-The Castle of Deranged Gods in Shadow Hearts (2001)
** Idar Flamme in Shadow Hearts: Covenant (2004)
* The Castle in the Clouds in the Sky, found in the Kingdom of Loathing (2003).
* The Valuan Imperial Palace in Skies of Arcadia (2000)
* Roper Klacks's castle in The Longest Journey (1999)
* The Darigan Citadel in Meridell in the Neopets (1999) world.
* Faerieland in the Neopets (1999) world.
* The floating island in Cave Story (2004)

Television and Movies
* The castle named Laputa, in tribute to Laputa of Gulliver's Travels, in the 1986 animated film Castle in the Sky.
* Sanctaphrax, both the first and the second in The Edge Chronicles series. Sanctaphrax is actually a giant floating rock with a city built on it fastened to the ground with a chain.
* Helliwood in Now and Then, Here and There (1999)
* Hiranipra and other unnamed cities in the sky in RahXephon (2003).
* The Steam Castle (aka., Steam Tower) in Steamboy (2004)
* Space-faring mountain-castle in Krull (1983)
* Airborne head-shaped rock vessel in Zardoz (1974)

Other
* The castle on a floating rock in The Castle in the Pyrenees, a painting by René Magritte (1959)
* The castle on a cloud from the imagination of Cosette from the musical Les Misérables (1980)
* Castle made of clouds high above the "mucky-muck", inhabited by Tenacious D's Wonderboy (2003)
* The city of Airlandis in the 1996 tv program, Dragon Flyz.
* The upside down castle above the dueling platform in Revolutionary Girl Utena (1996)
* A flying brothel and a flying windmill on a chunk of land in the music video of (2005) by Gorrilaz.

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