Places apojudy Wants to Go

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

Sitting beneath an unremarkable residential building is a museum devoted to classic Pinball.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

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

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

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

The inverted pyramid design of this station stands out amid Bratislava's urban landscape.

Thousands of slain Soviet soldiers are buried within the shadow of this enormous obelisk.

Annual technopop celebration of peace and love.

In the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere, standing at this site just outside Vienna, Austria, the sky would have been found beneath your feet.

A magnificent collection of imperial armor and weaponry.

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

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

An IT-specialist-turned-farmer reintroduces an Austrian food tradition while promoting snails as a sustainable "future food" option.

600 stumps, branches, and trunks of different shapes and sizes.

The world's largest collection of intentionally useless inventions.

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

A once-fairy tale mansion now stands in a state of disrepair.

Also known as the Blue Church, the building was consecrated to the daughter of Andrew II.