1. The 11th-century Arundel castle has been continuously occupied for the last eight centuries.

2. The Blarney Castle is home to the Blarney Stone of Irish legend.

3. Dracula lived in Bran Castle.

4. Castello di San Michele in Spain served as a luxury castle as well as an outpost for plague victims.

5. Harry Potter’s Hogwarts Academy is not set in a real castle.

6. Castles stopped being built by the 16th century.

7. Castle Drogo in Drewsteignton, England, was built in the 13th century.

8. The 15th-century Linlithgow Palace is known for being the prison for Mary, Queen of Scots.

9. Windsor Castle is the oldest still-occupied castle in the world.

10. The Miranda Castle was nicknamed the Noisy Castle because it was determined by its owners to be haunted by the ghosts of WWII soldiers.