The medieval beauty of Romania's Bran Castle wouldn't look out of place in a Disney movie.

But the elegant stone structure — situated in the Carpathian Mountains, on the border between Transylvania and Wallachia — appears to be a bit more sinister than Cinderella's castle. The Irish writer Bram Stoker used the castle as the inspiration for his Gothic horror novel Dracula, despite never having actually visited the location. Even without a vampire, Bran Castle has more than enough ghost stories, as it was the actual home of Vlad Tepes, a 15th-century military leader better known as Vlad the Impaler for his brutal persecution of his enemies. The screams of his victims are said to still echo through the castle, which hosts paranormal investigators — and an over-the-top annual Halloween bash.

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