Hungarian self-built castle.

Hungarian mummies in beautiful painted coffins.

A forgotten graveyard lost in the tangles of an overgrown garden.

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

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.

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

The romantic garden was the epicenter of the Hungarian art scene in the 1880s.

This Budapest bar allows drinkers to leave their mark on the walls, floor, and even ceiling.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

This off-beat, quirky communism-themed bar isn't afraid to poke fun at its history.

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

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

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

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

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

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

This solitary monastery may hold the remains of Vlad the Impaler (but probably not).

Romania's triumphal arch looks out over Bucharest.

Check out engineering marvels of the past at this unintentionally retrofuturist museum.

The preserved arm of a third-century sorcerer is believed to have the power to lift curses and spells.

The bust of Romania’s most notorious ruler, Vlad Dracula aka "Vlad the Impaler," keeps watch over the ruins of his medieval court.

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

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

Conspiracy theories and occult legends surround this mysterious natural rock formation.