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 ...

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 ...

Bran Castle in Romania is established as the model on which Bram Stoker based the creepy home of his vampiric Eastern European nobleman in his 1897 novel, Dracula. It was built in the early 13th ...

Why visit now: Fewer crowds and cooler weather in spring and fall make exploring castles, old towns, and mountain roads even more enchanting. Beyond Dracula: While Bran Castle draws the curious, ...