Of course, folksy Quebec can still be found in the more tourist-trampled part sof town, within the realm of Chateau Frontenac, the fanciful castle crowning the city, now a landmark hotel.
American publisher William Randolph Hearst bought parts of the monastery in 1931 with the intention of using its stones in the construction of a grand and fanciful castle at Wyntoon, California, but after some 10,000 stones were removed and shipped, they were abandoned in San Francisco for decades.
The garden borders the Jefferson Market Library, a fanciful brick castle with a clock tower, pinnacles, gables and stained-glass windows.
Often geysers have been given fanciful names (such as Castle Geyser in Yellowstone National Park) inspired by the shapes of the colourful and contorted mounds of siliceous sinter at the vents.
After her friend died, Ms. Buggée, now 31, volunteered her talents painting in a children's hospital, brushing fanciful images of dolphins, storybook castles and landscapes onto the walls.
It contains dozens of "fanciful" and "intricately detailed" miniature buildings, including castles, churches and cottages, constructed from agate, jasper, lava, malachite, obsidian, petrified wood and thundereggs.
Its fanciful style has earned it the nickname "Castle of Sleeping Beauty".
So with a large timepiece divided by decades overhanging the action surrounded by a fanciful mural cityscape of churches, smokestacks, shops, castle turrets, homes and a bridge, Tommy Clocks Jarlath Conroyy) leads the way back and forth through the past as the timepiece's hand indicates the year.
One ivory, a recent addition, is based on a fanciful secular literary theme, the assault on the Castle of Love.
The revival of "Faust," thoughtfully and energetically staged by Vilppu Kiljunen on the sort of fanciful less-is-more set that works best against the castle's meddlesome stones, was conducted with sweep and nuance by Markus Lehtinen.
