After 11 years of reconstruction work, Slovakia's finest hilltop chapel complex is finally reopen to the public.

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

This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.

A beautiful mountaintop mausoleum devoted to a Montenegrin icon can't seem to make everyone happy.

This brutalist monument is inscribed with 9921 names of Yugoslav partisans who perished during WWII.

These warring psychedelic crags commemorate an unsuccessful military operation.

Longest fortress system anywhere in Europe.

A musical instrument played by the sea.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

Croatia's towering concrete blossom grows from the site of a World War II concentration camp.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

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

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

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

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

This quaint Hungarian railway system is operated exclusively by children between the ages of 10 and 14.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

Festival of Perpetual Life and Rebirth.

Hungarian self-built castle.

The deepest sinkhole in Central Europe comes with a grisly tale and an unusual nickname: “The Stepmother Abyss.”

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.