This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

A steampunk-styled three-floor factory churning out art, activism, and electronic beats.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

Vienna's diversity-themed traffic lights were inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

Designed as a reminder of one of the darkest moments in Austrian history.

The townhouse where the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory started her murderous career.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

In the middle of a Vienna square, Roman ruins dating back some 2,000 years are on display.

A mechanical clock built in 1914, with a rotation of 12 historical figures on its face.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

A much-loved sculpture depicting the hero of a 1956 anti-Soviet uprising.

How did an Australian statue of the Bard of Avon end up in the Hungarian capital?

The geographical center of Budapest is marked with a 10-foot-tall stylized zero.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.