This once rural mansion now sits in the heart of the city.

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

This easily overlooked memorial immortalizes the scars from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

Time stands still at this serene burial ground in the center of Budapest.

Hungarian Jews were ghettoized during the Second World War, but little remains of the original wall that closed the Jewish people off from the rest of the city.

Also known as Uncle Karl, the beloved bronze copper keeps a watchful eye on St. Stephen’s Basilica while people rub his lucky belly.

A highly-criticized monument in Budapest has become the site of a makeshift Holocaust memorial.

A collection of items from a way of life that no longer exists.

This Transylvanian church has changed its denomination four times.

A memorial museum to the political prisoners who were held at Sighet Prison, once one of the most feared places in Romania.

This hauntingly beautiful cemetery outside a medieval citadel is full of winding paths and ivy-covered graves.

Nine centuries-old fortresses guard the walls of this medieval Romanian city.

Something's watching you.

A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.

Some call this eerie forest of crooked trees the "Bermuda Triangle of Romania."

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

A fire once nearly devoured this gorgeous 14th-century Gothic cathedral.

The European towns of Brașov and Râșnov each have proud signs reminiscent of the Hollywood sign.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

Elaborate mansions built by Roma residents in Soroca to show their success after centuries of discrimination.

This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

The preserved arm of a third-century sorcerer is believed to have the power to lift curses and spells.

One of the most controversial statues in Romania is an emperor with no clothes.

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