Places abbyseitz Wants to Go

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

A muddy alien landscape that is home to rare species of exotic plants.

An ancient Roman snake god, carved expertly into stone.

Once an opulent Art Nouveau hotspot, the Constanța Casino is one of Romania's most beautiful abandoned buildings.

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

Inside the Šomoška National Nature Reserve exists a unique rock formation rarely seen in the world.

This tower in a small Polish village uses the power of a sacred bell to ward off mischievous weather spirits.

This metro station doubles as an unintentional paleontology museum.

This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.

After sitting unused for decades, this abandoned communist infrastructure became a wildlife utopia.

A statue in Budapest's Liberty Square honors the former U.S. president's efforts to end the Cold War.

From Austrians to Nazis to Soviets, this historic Budapest fortress has a history as complex as the city itself.

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

The oldest private art gallery in all of Hungary.

The remains of an entire Roman city can be explored in this interactive museum.

This Hungarian stilt village is built in a lake that never freezes over due to the power plant that that uses it as a cooling pond.

A relic of the Cold War tucked away in the forested hills above Bratislava.

This spaceship sculpture in the middle of the Slovakian capital looks like it just crash-landed.

A unique hotel for the artistic soul.

According to the local legend, these boys and ducks were turned to stone by an angered water goblin.

A sculpture of the beloved author surrounded by characters from his fairy tales.

Often mistaken as a medieval Gothic monument, this unique cornerstone only dates back to the 1980s.

The site is dedicated to an investigative journalist whose murder triggered a political uproar that changed Slovakia forever.

In an area known in Bratislava’s postal history, this sculpture sits equipped with a functional postbox.