The photo showed Bran Castle, a 14th-century fortress near the city of Brasov, Romania, a spokesperson for the stronghold — which now operates as a tourist attraction — confirmed via email.

A sculpture commemorating Petru Darascu, a Romanian priest who survived several Communist prisons, by Ovidiu Nicolae Popa is backdropped by the Gothic Bran Castle, better known as Dracula Castle ...

Staking out Dracula's castle in Romania. By Aaron Cooper, CNN. The ruins of Poienari Castle are just that -- ruins. This was Vlad Dracula's real home in the 1400s. STORY HIGHLIGHTS.

A visit to Dracula’s castle in Romania. By Laura Elliott . Nov. 4, 2007 12 AM PT . ... My first encounter with real Romanian monsters happened a few days after I arrived.

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 ...

In this picture taken Oct. 9, 2016, two coffins are lit before a photo shoot in Bran Castle, in Bran, Romania. Airbnb has launched a contest to find two people to stay overnight in the castle on ...

THE “true” home of Dracula where bloodthirsty Vlad the Impaler lived is set to open to the public. Until five years ago, Poienari Castle in the city of Curtea de Arge, Romania, had… ...

The castle, where Vlad the Impaler, the prince who inspired the Dracula novel, is believed to have stayed, became a much-loved residence of Queen Marie of Romania who, before she died in 1938, had ...

As for the fictional Dracula — from the imagination of Irish author Bram Stoker — the writer, who thought up the mythical creature, never visited Bran Castle — or anywhere in Romania — and ...

Now one of Romania’s best-known, lore-filled landmarks is home to the ultimate soiree on the scariest night of the year. Though you could go on a day tour, eat at the castle restaurant, enter ...