Tap a numbered dot and listen.
Carpathian roads to the castle: the Saxon merchants of Brașov, Vlad the Impaler's actual military campaigns — grimmer than the fiction — the fortress at Râșnov, and Bram Stoker's research, which borrowed a castle he never visited for a count he invented.
In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.
Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.