Walk through a clothing store, across a courtyard, and up several flights of stairs for delicious coffee with a side of beautiful views.

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

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

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

A much-loved sculpture depicting the hero of a 1956 anti-Soviet uprising.

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

The geographical center of Budapest is marked with a 10-foot-tall stylized zero.

A fake Transylvanian castle houses a cathedral of antlers.

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

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

This fortress-like monastery is covered with intricate frescoes.

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

A medieval church built up to defend its village.

Historic beer hall in Bucharest with magnificent stained glass and a lively folk band.

This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.

The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.

The ancient Greek Titan guards this massive dam holding a lightning bolt to symbolize electricity.

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

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

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

An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.

Engraved in stone here are the signatures of everyone who signed the Declaration of Independence.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.