The 16th-century castle, which was built partly with stones from the ruined priory, has towers and turrets perched on an outcrop looking out to sea.

He resembled nothing so much as a tower perched on the high ledge - his boots small gatehouses, his hands thick balconies, his horned helmet the peaked and merloned roof.

On the other side was the image of a harbour, its opening guarded on the left by a massive, rectangular tower and on the right by a thin spiky tower perched on a lump of rock.

Preah Ko consists of six brick towers arranged in two rows of three towers each perched on a sandstone platform.

It includes a strange polygonal tower perched on a rocky spur, the façades dominating the sheer drop, and a fine round corner tower.

Today, all that remains of the castle is a tower, perched on the edge of a plateau, looking down on a flat tract of land between it and the shore of the Firth of Clyde.

"The Elevator," he said, nodding toward a tall tower perched on the edge of the cliffs, festooned with antennae and satellite dishes.

Every ten kilometers or so they passed another single tower, perched on a slope or a hill crest to their left.

A permanent memorial of this event was planned in the form of a tower perched on the hill overlooking the town of Huddersfield.

This 17-story tower, perched on one of the best stretches of Waikiki oceanfront, is more deluxe than most Outrigger and related Ohana hotels.