Perhaps most famous for having inspired the hit Dan Brown novel, The Da Vinci Code, this picturesque Gothic chapel in a ...

Eighteen-year-old George Smyth vanished on a solo hike near Romania’s Bran Castle, the site long linked to the Dracula legend, after calling emergency services while disoriented and hypothermic.

The dramatic, snow-laden peaks of Romania's Bucegi mountains, looming near the legendary Bran Castle—often romantically known as Dracula's Castle—have become the ominous setting for a desperate ...

The 18-year-old set off for his hike towards village of Bran, where Dracula's rumored home is located, on Nov. 23, according to U.K. newspapers The Times and Metro Smyth's mother said her son made a ...

George Smyth, 18, was hiking alone in the Bucegi Mountains in Romania when he called the mountain rescue service for help on Nov. 23 Salvamont Brasov Facebook British teenager George Smyth has been ...

Rescue teams have been forced to pause the search for a British teenager who is believed to be missing in the mountains of Romania. George Smyth, 18, from Shropshire, was last seen on 23 November. He ...

Mountain rescuers are in a race against time to find a British teenager who went missing on a hike near Bran Castle in Romania. George Smyth, 18, was trekking in the Bucegi mountains alone on 23 ...

A search for a British student who went missing while solo hiking in a Romanian mountain range has reached its 10th day. University of Bristol student George Smyth, 18, was hiking in the Bucegi ...

A teenager has disappeared after setting out on a solo hike near a castle known locally as the home of one of the horror genre’s most instantly recognisable characters. George Smyth had set out to ...

In Southeastern Europe lies the legendary Romania–famous for the legends surrounding the vampire Count Dracula. Although the story is fictional, it is loosely based on the historical Vlad III and has ...

Bran Castle is one of those places where folklore clings to the walls. Perched above the village of Bran, its spires and narrow stairways helped turn it into the world’s “Dracula’s Castle,” even ...