Places bartholomej Wants to Go

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.

Possibly the world's largest hourglass only needs to be reset every New Year's Eve.

The romantic garden was the epicenter of the Hungarian art scene in the 1880s.

This Budapest bar allows drinkers to leave their mark on the walls, floor, and even ceiling.

Tucked away near more famous landmarks lies a statue meant to symbolize the confluence and continuing development of human culture.

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

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

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

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

A random tree outside a Budapest hotel has become a DIY shrine to the late singer.

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

This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.

The prison where Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf," and 278 Nazis were later executed for war crimes.

A graveyard and memorial chapel for victims of leprosy.

This small town in Germany was once a center of peppermint production, and has the museum to prove it.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.