The owners of a castle rumored to have inspired the abode of Bram Stoker's Dracula are driving a stake through vampire-wannabes around the world. Bran Castle is not for sale, the owners say, despite ...

Our arrival in southern Transylvania is married by bitterly cold weather, but the inhospitable conditions seem to lend themselves to the already ominous sight that is Bran Castle. Set upon the border ...

The year is 1211, and an order of knights, yes, like packing armor and weaponry on horseback kind of stuff, was given a gift. Nothing too big, just a piece of land where they could build a fortress ...

Bran Castle is relying on its connections to the puncture-happy vampire Dracula to entice people to get vaccinated. Here, masked visitors stand in front of a sign depicting syringes as vampire fangs.

Although this remarkable fortress has weathered centuries of war, poverty and multiple political empires, Bran Castle is most famous for being the assumed residence of Dracula. Vlad Tepes, the ...

Bran Castle, which inspired one of the most iconic monsters in literature -- Count Dracula -- is reason enough to visit Romania's Carpathian Mountains.Courtesy of Top Ten Real Estate Deals Bran Castle ...

Bran Castle, Romanian Castelul Bran, a medieval stronghold in the Transylvanian Alps (Southern Carpathian Mountains) of Brașov county, central Romania. Popularly—if inaccurately—identified with the ...

Transylvania. After a century of being name-dropped in literature and film, this region inside Romania inspires instantaneous association with severe mountains, gothic castles, peasant villages and an ...

As Halloween edges closer, the yearning to do more spooky and fun fall activities pulls me in. Every year, I attempt to pack my late September to end of October with the usuals: marathons of Halloween ...

Residents of Romania who find themselves in central Transylvania this May now have the option of getting vaccinated at a legendary location from horror history: Bran Castle. Every weekend this month, ...