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

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

Some of the greatest minds in the history of Hungarian art and science converged in this café.

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.

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

The true meaning behind this sculpture remains unknown.

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

This easily overlooked memorial immortalizes the scars from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

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

A statue in Budapest's Liberty Square honors the former U.S. president's efforts to end the Cold War.

This building has survived for more than a century and remains virtually untouched.

Hungarian self-built castle.

One of the largest barracks of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy's military is now an abandoned ruin.

The abandoned military base looks like a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

These paved rills bring freshwater into Altstadt and could spell wedding bells for whoever stumbles into the waters.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

Twisted trees shaped by coastal winds make this woodland look like something from a spooky story.

The bridge that cost Germany a World Heritage Site.

Tourists often confuse this beautifully ornate former cigarette factory for a mosque.

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.

A unique, free-floating electric ferry may be the only of its kind in Europe.

The ruined remains of the airport Claus von Stauffenberg departed in his failed attempt to kill Adolf Hitler.

The site of good faith and good nature in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.