Places caitlinhug7 Wants to Go

A glimpse into the festive and private lives of medieval Europe.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

The townhouse where the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory started her murderous career.

The resting place for anonymous victims of the Danube's dark waters.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

This building has survived for more than a century and remains virtually untouched.

A 13th-century convent where St. Margaret of Hungary spent her teenage years.

The oldest private art gallery in all of Hungary.

A forgotten graveyard lost in the tangles of an overgrown garden.

A fake Transylvanian castle houses a cathedral of antlers.

Late at night, the bust of the "Dracula" actor was snuck onto the facade of this Budapest castle.

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.

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

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

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

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

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

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

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