The blood-soaked ruins of the castle where the murderous Blood Countess was walled in alive.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

One of these two land speed record-breaking vehicles went so fast it shattered the sound barrier.

Every hour on the hour a naked heroine and her leering foil appear from this giant cuckoo clock.

The bombed out remains of the old church were kept intact next to the new one, as a reminder of the futility of war.

Created as a punny statement about genetic engineering this monstrous hybrid statue has become a beloved icon.

A thousand year old oak tree survives in Liverpool.

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

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

"Medieval" castle built in the mid-20th century by one family.

The romantic garden was the epicenter of the Hungarian art scene in the 1880s.

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