Central Europe

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.

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

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

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

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

One of the most controversial statues in Romania is an emperor with no clothes.

Romania's triumphal arch looks out over Bucharest.

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

This snug medieval lane is one of the narrowest streets in the world.

The blood-soaked ruins of the castle where the murderous Blood Countess was walled in alive.

The 700-year-old fortress was the site of Count Orlok's castle in "Nosferatu."

This spaceship sculpture in the middle of the Slovakian capital looks like it just crash-landed.

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

The largest fountain in Bratislava.

The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

Mozart's skull may be held in this collection, but definitive proof continues to elude scientists.

This strange statue features a bust of the famous composer plopped atop a woman's body.

The beautiful, ornate weather station is the most popular geocache in Salzburg.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

The last municipal pneumatic post system in the world was in operation for over 100 years, and may run again.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.