The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

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

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

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

This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.

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

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

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

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

Tucked away in a Prague park, a statue beloved by romantics honors a poet so nice they buried him twice.

The oldest garden in Prague, once part of an medieval orchard.