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Would totally pee out the window just saying
The castle is on the very edge of a terrible precipice. A stone falling from the window would fall a thousand feet without touching anything! As far as the eye can reach is a sea of green tree tops, with occasionally a deep rift where there is a chasm.
-Jonathan Harker, May 8
Now, remember that the Count was originally meant to be Austrian, and his castle to be in Styria, Austria.
Here's what the most famous castle in the region looks like: