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 Budapest bar allows drinkers to leave their mark on the walls, floor, and even ceiling.

The oldest housing complex in Riga is a mini timeline of architectural trends.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

A black cat protests the City Guild in Riga's Old Town.

Latvia's symbolic mountain-shaped national library is home to millions of cultural tomes.

The reconstruction of this prominent building fulfilled a long-written command.

This charming Latvian lane doubled as Baker Street on the Soviet Union’s version of Sherlock Holmes.

A stone marker and sculpture in the city of Riga stake a claim for the very first community Christmas tree.

This celebration of Latvia’s freedom and independence avoided demolition over half a century of Soviet occupation.

The statue of a legendary giant who carried Christ and shouldered the world's sins.

This Florida resort community is where the Amish come to have fun in the sun.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

The patron of this extravagant Art Nouveau confection insisted that nothing less than a boat should project from its facade.

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

Morocco's largest Jewish cemetery.

Deliberately hidden for centuries, the magnificent Saadian Tombs were eventually uncovered in 1917.