Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 14th-century Bran Castle sits 20 miles south of Brașov, a medieval city with red-tiled roofs and gothic spires. Photograph by ...

Mention Romania, or more specifically, Transylvania, and one thing will likely spring to mind: Dracula. But while the fictional horror icon's historical inspiration, Vlad the Impaler, does feature ...

Residents of Romania who find themselves in central Transylvania this May now have the option of getting vaccinated at a legendary location from horror history: Bran Castle. Every weekend this month, ...

As Halloween edges closer, the yearning to do more spooky and fun fall activities pulls me in. Every year, I attempt to pack my late September to end of October with the usuals: marathons of Halloween ...

Transylvania’s name derives from a Latin term meaning ‘beyond the forest’, but it’s the destination’s gothic links most people have a hard time looking past. Over 125 years after Bram Stoker’s Dracula ...

Cut off from the rest of Romania by the arc of the Carpathian Mountains, Transylvania still embodies a certain rural self-sufficiency. There are few better examples than the picturesque village of ...

“Please, have more. You’ve hardly eaten,” says Marilena, as she ladles some extra sarmale cabbage rolls onto my plate. I’ve had three already, and this is after two bowls of chicken soup and a couple ...

BUCHAREST -- In a photograph from 2015, then Prince Charles, smiling and casually dressed in chinos and a white shirt, has one hand on a tape measure as he helps to gauge the circumference of the ...