Bran Castle, about an hour from the city of Braşov, certainly seems like the kind of place Dracula and vampires would live. It sounds exciting, but that’s where the legend ends. It’s known in popular culture as Dracula’s Castle only because Bram Stoker chose it as the setting for his novel. Even the real historical Dracula, Vlad Țepeș, never lived there and probably only visited briefly.