A Hungarian optometrist's charming collection of Asian art and curiosities.

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

This statue of a falling man commemorates a teenage martyr of the Hungarian Revolution.

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

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

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

Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

Sitting beneath an unremarkable residential building is a museum devoted to classic Pinball.

Tucked away near more famous landmarks lies a statue meant to symbolize the confluence and continuing development of human culture.

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

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

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

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

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

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

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

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

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

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

This TV tower once secretly housed a GDR intelligence team.

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter.

A replica of the Liberty Bell rang daily from West Berlin's City Hall throughout the Cold War.

Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.