The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

Late at night, the bust of the "Dracula" actor was snuck onto the facade of this Budapest castle.

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.

Sitting beneath an unremarkable residential building is a museum devoted to classic Pinball.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

Possibly the world's largest hourglass only needs to be reset every New Year's Eve.

From Austrians to Nazis to Soviets, this historic Budapest fortress has a history as complex as the city itself.

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.

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

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

Unable to build support structures on glaciers, the engineers for this tramway were forced to design a unique system.

Trek up this glacier before it disappears.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.