Do you think legends ever truly die? Bran Castle looms over the misty Transylvanian countryside like a fortress ripped from the pages of a Gothic novel. And in a way, it was—Bram Stoker’s infamous Count Dracula, the pale aristocrat with a thirst for blood, may be a work of fiction, but the castle’s haunting silhouette feels like it could have inspired the whole tale, even if Stoker never once set foot in Romania. The castle’s real history is equally compelling. Vlad III Dracula, the ruthless rul