Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

This open air archeological site houses almost as much wildlife as it does classical religious artifacts.

An abandoned cable car station located on the Danube stands like a haunted house above the river.

In the hometown of the Catholic saint and Nobel Peace Prize winner, a memorial dedicated to her legacy.

A towering spire in the fortress of Kalemegdan honors the victorious armies of Serbia during their struggles against the Ottoman Empire.

The bizarre rocks of Đavolja Varoš are the result of natural erosion.

The unusual sculptures are believed to be powerful political symbols.

Backwards hour and minute hands and a timing mechanism that fluctuates with the temperature led to this clock tower's local nickname.

Built as an anti-fascist tribute, this surreal Yugoslav memorial became an unwelcome symbol after the Croatian war for independence.

Hungarian self-built castle.

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

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

Legions of Roman soldiers bathed in this ancient spa complex under a Budapest transit station.

The Hungarian biochemist whose research helped develop mRNA-based vaccines for Covid-19.

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

A once-fairy tale mansion now stands in a state of disrepair.

The inverted pyramid design of this station stands out amid Bratislava's urban landscape.

The largest fountain in Bratislava.

A massive sculpture of an obscure Celtic coin that has become a symbol in Slovakia.

In an area known in Bratislava’s postal history, this sculpture sits equipped with a functional postbox.

Launched by Napoleon's soldiers more than 200 years ago, a cannonball remains embedded in the tower wall.

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