Places ecbarchives Wants to Go

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

The oldest garden in Prague, once part of an medieval orchard.

The tunnel's elegant proportions keep you snug with no claustrophobia freak-out.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

In an area known in Bratislava’s postal history, this sculpture sits equipped with a functional postbox.

Launched by Napoleon's soldiers more than 200 years ago, a cannonball remains embedded in the tower wall.

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

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

A 19th-century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

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

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

A collection of intricate sculptures so small they have to be seen through a microscope.

The metal leaves on this tree are engraved with the names of Holocaust victims.

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

Some of the greatest minds in the history of Hungarian art and science converged in this café.