A visibility webcam at Wonder Lake offers an up-to-date look at conditions on the north side of Denali in summer, and lets you track year-round weather and air quality updates near Denali Park Headquarters. The Healy Alpine camera, above, operates year-round.
Thousands were often impaled at a single time. Ten thousand were impaled in the Transylvanian city of Sibiu (where Vlad had once lived) in 1460. In 1459, on St. Bartholomew's Day, Vlad had thirty thousand of the merchants and boyars of the Transylvanian city of Brasov impaled.
The castle depicted in the novel Dracula matches some parts of Bran Castle-but it's far from being an exact match. The character of Dracula was, however, based on a real individual-Vlad the Impaler. Vlad's cruelty and bloodlust was truly inhuman-stranger than fiction.