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Late at night, the bust of the "Dracula" actor was snuck onto the facade of this Budapest castle.

Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

This off-beat, quirky communism-themed bar isn't afraid to poke fun at its history.

The true meaning behind this sculpture remains unknown.

This building has survived for more than a century and remains virtually untouched.

From cartoon characters to tiny tanks, a guerilla sculptor's little bronze statues are hidden throughout the city of Budapest.

On Gellért Hill, this statue depicts the tragic tale of lovers divided by the Danube.

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

This statue of a falling man commemorates a teenage martyr of the Hungarian Revolution.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

A triumphant marble and bronze fountain depicting a 15th-century Hungarian king and his hunting party.

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

Epicurean and holy traditions converge in what may be the oldest restaurant in Europe.

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.

An exquisite Baroque church in Vienna's old town.

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

One of Vienna’s oldest (and perhaps most haunted) alleys, allegedly with a bloody past that gave it its name.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

This Austrian museum celebrates the work of famous forgers and their inimitable imitations.

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

A rooftop restaurant hides in plain sight atop Vienna's Palace of Justice.