A student driver's nightmare.

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

"Holy Wisdom" overlooks the city that became its namesake.

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

Romania's triumphal arch looks out over Bucharest.

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

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

The European towns of Brașov and Râșnov each have proud signs reminiscent of the Hollywood sign.

A magnificent, glittering building tucked into a tiny Bulgarian mountain town.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

A flamboyant five-story building in Bulgaria resembles a crawling snail.

A collection of art from Bulgaria's time as a communist state.

A vast Communist-era exhibition space in the Bulgarian capital.

A Bulgarian monument to Russia's role in World War II is constantly being painted in pop culture protest.

A striking symbol of the Bulgarian capital.

Sofia's legislative center is continuously reinventing itself.

A miniature train-ride through Slovenia's largest cave system.