Located high atop a mountain and accessible by 1,480 concrete stairs, this castle was a favorite of Vlad III Dracula—better known as Vlad the Impaler. Some 400 years later, the Romanian royal inspired Bram Stoker's Count Dracula.

According to local legend, a tree grew from the stake that killed this alleged vampire. In reality, the Transylvanian immigrant probably died from influenza.

Among the old police uniforms and equipment at this museum, there is a 19th-century vampire slaying kit. But silver bullets and wooden stakes weren't standard-issue for Australian police—the antique was confiscated in a raid in 2004.

A curious gravesite in Malew Churchyard is cornered by four iron stakes, draped with heavy chains. A huge slate slab covers the grave. It remains a mystery as to exactly why these chains were placed here back in the 1850s, but legends say that the man buried here was a vampire.

This small cemetery is home to the grave of Mercy Lena Brown. Her case was the last known instance in the state of Rhode Island of a large group of otherwise sensible folks exhuming, mutilating, immolating, and cannibalizing a corpse to kill a vampire.

Beneath the main square in Kraków Old Town lies a hologram-filled medieval wonderland. Opened in 2010, the Rynek Underground showcases a treasure trove of Kraków history, including depictions of the method for burying a suspected vampire.

A number of legends are associated with this large mountaintop castle. One story says that Vlad the Impaler spent some seven years in the dungeons of Corvin Castle, a stay that resulted in his eventual madness.

Henry and Lucy Ray of Jewett City, Connecticut, had five children. In the mid-19th century, Henry and three of his sons died of a peculiar wasting disease that would later be identified as tuberculosis, but back then was clearly the work of a vampire.

This sprawling Virginia cemetery is the final resting place of several presidents and one blood-sucking monster. Teens have been known to slip in at night (especially on Halloween) to view the mausoleum of W.W. Pool, who was supposedly run out of England in the 1800s for being a vampire.

Today, not much remains of this princely palace and its grounds other than ruins. But amidst the broken masonry and old stone arches, like a sentinel, the bust of Romania’s most notorious ruler, Vlad III Dracula, keeps watch over the medieval court.