Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

Time stands still at this serene burial ground in the center of Budapest.

Possibly the world's largest hourglass only needs to be reset every New Year's Eve.

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

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

The geographical center of Budapest is marked with a 10-foot-tall stylized zero.

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

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

Central Europe's largest collection of mini-bottles is on display at this museum devoted to a bitter Hungarian liquor.

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

A marvel of technology a century ago, this disused power station now offers a lovely glimpse into the industrial design of the past.

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

A 13th-century convent where St. Margaret of Hungary spent her teenage years.

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

A two-way chairlift system between Zugliget and the highest point in the city.

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

This quaint Hungarian railway system is operated exclusively by children between the ages of 10 and 14.

A 19th century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.

The ruins of an ancient mansion sits in front of and underneath a contemporary art gallery.

Carvings in Turkey's Marble Road may have directed ancient Romans to a hidden brothel.

Seven early Christians were sealed into a cave where legend has it they slept unharmed for centuries.

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

This crumbling medieval basilica once attracted pilgrims by the thousands to collect a miraculous dust that formed above the saint's tomb.