Both Count Orlok and his inspiration Count Dracula hail from Transylvania, a real region in present-day central Romania, nestled between the Carpathian Mountains and the Transylvanian Alps.

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 ...

but the castles of Romania shout out grandeur at an even higher level. Corvin Castle is where Vlad the Impaler (the legendary ...