The house that took a plunge into the facade of a museum.

The townhouse where the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory started her murderous career.

Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.

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

A magnificent collection of imperial armor and weaponry.

A neo-Gothic church built to thank God for saving the Emperor of Austria from an assassination.

In the middle of a Vienna square, Roman ruins dating back some 2,000 years are on display.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

A non-stop elevator ride in Vienna's city hall.

This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.

Strange rumors surround the artist who created these solemn metal guard dogs.

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

In between two buildings in Ljubljana, medieval tunnel to nowhere.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

Slovenia's first mosque is a striking mix of Islamic and modernist architecture.

A public work of art that also provides some relief from the summer heat.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

A relic from the Industrial Revolution got a second life as a contemporary performing arts space.

This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.

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

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

A striking symbol of the Bulgarian capital.

Sofia's legislative center is continuously reinventing itself.

An abandoned resort in North Macedonia is a relic from the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.