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

A small town Romanian cemetery filled with darkly humorous gravestones.

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

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

Some call this eerie forest of crooked trees the "Bermuda Triangle of Romania."

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

This charming wooden church was disassembled and moved not once but twice before settling in this Prague garden.

This ruined castle perched atop a rocky peak is a great place for a hike.

A larger-than-life statue of the German revolutionist stands proud in a small town where he never lived.

A mesmerizing landscape of 18th-century cellars carved out of the land.

This renaissance château was home to an infamous witch hunter who sent a hundred suspected witches to their deaths.

Unique house covered in a nightmarish mural of demons, ghosts and monsters.

Underneath the city that invented pilsners are a series of historic tunnels that have been storing beer for centuries.

The mystery of the Putim Ossuary involves a tricorn hat.

These 17th-century mummies are no longer naturally preserved, but remain on display today.

This network of conjoined cellars was riddled with traps and supposedly allowed the townspeople to pretend their homes were deserted.

Mysterious painted skulls in Moravia.

Folklore says this medieval fortress was plopped atop a portal to hell to trap the demons below.

Enormous sandstone towers loom within a Czech forest.

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

A museum of alchemy and a basement laboratory all housed in an ancient building in a Gothic tower.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.