Bran Castle in Transylvania, Romania, the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula castle. The bell decoration hung inside one of the castle rooms.
Bran Castle
Bratislava
Images from an afternoon in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. The clock museum was an odd highlight of the day, and the final picture is of a statue of a witch near the castle on a hill.
Images of the small village of Durnstein, in northern Austria. The first pictures show the town along the Danube with the ruined castle Durnstein at the top of the hill, and the last picture is looking down at the town from the castle ruins.
Castle Trakoscan
Castle Trakoscan in northern Croatia; all the rooms show range of furniture and art from the different periods it was occupied.
Durnstein Castle
The ruins of castle Durnstein, in Austria, where English King Richard the Lionhearted was held prisoner in 1192 as he returned to England from the Crusades, and was ransomed by his mother, Eleanor of Acquitaine. The river seen from the top of the mountain where the castle ruins sit is the Danube.
Poppies
Poppies in front of the Oakley Court Hotel in Windsor, England–also known as the filming location for Rocky Horror Picture Show.