Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

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

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

Also known as the Blue Church, the building was consecrated to the daughter of Andrew II.

This spaceship sculpture in the middle of the Slovakian capital looks like it just crash-landed.

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

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

Visiting this café is like visiting the Austrian grandma you wish you had.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

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

This museum promotes informed contraception by documenting its often secret past.

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

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.

Visitors can explore the role of mysticism throughout the ages inside this interactive museum of magic.

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

Ride in 1960s style on the private luxury train Marshal Josip Tito used to travel around Yugoslavia.

The final resting place for a wealthy Roman family, this tomb might be the best preserved of its kind outside Italy.

Located in the middle of public park, this cave built in the early19th century houses an ancient stone sarcophagus.

These unique stepping stones hug a river's edge to take hikers on a journey through a limestone gorge.