Perched majestically above the roaring Bow River and wrapped in a blanket of evergreen forest, the historic Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel commands the valley. From the vantage point of Surprise Corner, this century-old Scottish baronial fortress looks strikingly like a real-life Hogwarts, floating mystically among the mountains. While the hotel itself is a private sanctuary for guests, this lookout offers the exclusive, unobstructed panorama that you simply cannot see from up close. It is the only place to capture the full grandeur of the "Castle in the Rockies" against its dramatic backdrop. Snap the shutter here, and you have captured the definitive postcard memory of Banff—no filter required!