If you have $135 million you can own Dracula’s Castle. The Transylvanian mansion is said to be the inspiration for the castle in the Dracula films, which is how it received its name.
Bran Castle, the alleged inspiration for Dracula’s castle in Bram Stoker’s 1987 classic horror story, is for sale.
The imposing fortress, which dates back to the 13th century, sits atop a craggy rock formation in the Transylvania region of central Romania. The castle was used as a defense against the Ottoman Empire in the 1400s, and over the following centuries it was also used as a customs point. Throughout much of the 20th century, Bran Castle was a royal residence of the Kingdom of Romania.
Bram Stoker never visited Romania, but “he depicted the imaginary Dracula’s castle based upon a description of Bran Castle that was available to him in turn-of-the-century Britain,” according to the castle’s official website.
Let’s say you need to kill a vampire. The National Firearms Museum has just the thing: The Vampire Hunter’s Colt Detective Special includes everything you need to make the undead more dead. Click each picture below to see the amazing detail.
The ultimate sidearm for any vampire hunter, this elaborately engraved, silver-plated Colt .38 Special Detective Special revolver is fitted within a coffin-shaped ebony case that holds holy water, mirror, a wooden stake and silver bullets cast in the shape of miniature vampire heads. The gothic engraving by Francolini includes bats on the cylinder, a cross at the muzzle, and a rampant colt on a coffin.
It was Halloween and three vampires went into a saloon and bellied up to the bar. “
What will you have?” the bartender asked.
“I’ll have a glass of blood,” the first replied.
“I’ll have a glass of blood, too, please,” said the second.
“I’ll have a glass of plasma,” said the third.
“OK, let me get this straight,” the bartender said. “That’ll be two bloods and a blood light?”