Half-way between Deir el Qamar and Beit ed-Dine, Moussa Castle is the lifework of a man who decided as a child to build himself a medieval fortress and then did. It is not authentic — the architecture is a folk-fantasy mix of Crusader keep, French chateau, and Lebanese village house — but it is more interesting than that summary suggests.
The interior is packed with full-sized animated wax-figure dioramas of Lebanese village life: a baker working the oven, a wedding feast, a Druze sheikh receiving guests, all of them moving on internal mechanisms when you push a button. There is also a serious collection of antique firearms, swords, and folk artefacts. Children love the place; adults oscillate between charmed and baffled.
Open daily; admission is modest. Allow an hour, longer with kids.