The guests were welcomed in perfect Gothic-style: they arrived in a stagecoach, dined by candlelight, and even curled up in red velvet-lined coffins. Bran's castle was home to Vlad the Impaler in ...

The Sagada people have been practicing such burials for over 2,000 years, and some of the coffins are well over a century old. Eventually the coffins deteriorate and fall from their precarious ...