I built this map from open data. Every point is one of 5,793 castles, fortresses, palaces and ruins across 138 countries: 2,591 castles, 1,180 fortresses, 934 palaces and 1,088 ruins. The density is the story. Europe blazes while most of the planet stays dark.
It is a curated atlas, not a complete inventory. Germany alone has an estimated 25,000 castle sites (According to some sources). A landmark makes the map when it has a real photo on Wikimedia Commons, a Wikipedia article and exact coordinates in Wikidata, balanced across countries so the map stays explorable. France leads with 351.
You can explore every one interactively at https://thecastlemap.com/ with photos, founding centuries and short stories, plus a daily Guess the Castle game. There are no ads or sign up, everything CC0 and free to download.
This shows how incredibly biased wikipedia is. I don't think there is a single place in Perus mountains that is not in sight of an Inca ruin. I would bet a lot of money they beat germanies 25.000 by at least a factor of 10.
Still cool, but its more of a "map of sights that have a wikipedia article" than a "map of castles and ruins"
Well the data has to come from somewhere. Is there any place online where these are recorded?
I don't think there is anything like a comprehensive list of Inca ruins online. If there even exists a list it will probably be with the ministry of culture of Peru and most likely in paper form. Also in Spanish of course.