The bust of Romania’s most notorious ruler, Vlad Dracula aka "Vlad the Impaler," keeps watch over the ruins of his medieval court.

This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.

This 14th century castle withstood years of battle but is now sliding off the hills into the Danube.

A sculpture of a beloved local figure, who tipped his top hat to everyone he passed on the streets of Bratislava.

Launched by Napoleon's soldiers more than 200 years ago, a cannonball remains embedded in the tower wall.

An ode to a soldier who came to town, fell in love, then began making his own sparkling wine.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

A sculpture of the beloved author surrounded by characters from his fairy tales.

One of the most controversial statues in Romania is an emperor with no clothes.

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

A unique post-modern public space in the middle of the Warehouse District in New Orleans.

This coastal port saw one of the most significant battles of the Civil War.

This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.

The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.

A beer pipeline runs beneath Bruges.

Christ's blood preserved in a Belgian town.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

The compass on its front was a handy tool for 17th-century merchants who needed to know the direction of the wind.

A unique work of automotive art calls this shopping center home.

This 22-floor tower's Skydeck offers panoramic views of Amsterdam.

Some 80,000 Delft Blue tiles line the inside of this Amsterdam walkway.

Amsterdam's former hotspot for public executions and dissections.

In the days before house numbers, these colorful signs held clues about various buildings' purposes.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.