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.
Though Dracula may seem like a singular creation, Stoker in fact drew inspiration from a real-life man with an even more grotesque taste for blood: Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia or â as he is better known â Vlad the Impaler (Vlad Tepes), a name he earned for his favorite way of dispensing with his enemies.