Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

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.

This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

This man-made mound monument was built out of soil from all across the Polish empire.

This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.

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

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

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

This cubist Vienna church building looks like some sort of alien stonehenge.

A grassy pyramid named after a French battle.

Once the local rulers had gone these enchanting ruins housed common folk in an almost real life fairy tale.

Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Cozy basement bar sports an inventory of over 2,000 beers.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

Climbing this abandoned railway leads to breathtaking vistas of O‘ahu.

This small island off the coast of Uruguay hosts the largest colony of sea lions and fur seals in the southern hemisphere.

This imposing memorial contains the remains of Che Guevara — and 29 other guerrillas who died with him in Bolivia.

His music once banned in Communist Cuba, John Lennon is now immortalized in bronze by Castro, who considers Lennon a "fellow dreamer."

No one knows the meaning behind this giant sculpture of a nude woman with a fork riding a rooster in Havana.