Only a few days after her 17th birthday in 1814, English writer Mary Shelley and her husband, the radical poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, found themselves in the town of Gernsheim, Germany. From there, they could likely see the towers of a large castle looming in the distance. The burg, which would go on to share much in common with the fortress in Mary Shelley’s iconic horror novel, is known as Frankenstein Castle.

Located in the town of Mühltal, the 13th-century castle stands high above the Rhine Valley in the Odenwald, a mountain range in southern Germany. Although all that remains of Frankenstein Castle today are a few ruined buildings and walls, the fortress was once a domineering presence.

And like the castle in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the real-life Frankenstein Castle (also sometimes called Castle Frankenstein or Burg Frankenstein) has long been shrouded in mystery and disturbing rumors, especially surrounding its most infamous resident, Johann Konrad Dippel.

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