Places fhayes Wants to Go

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

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

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

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

A series of bronze circus performers spread throughout a Slovakian shopping center.

Brass plaques embedded in pavement preserve the memories of those who lost their lives at the hands of Nazis during World War II.

An ode to a soldier who came to town, fell in love, then began making his own sparkling wine.

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

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

Admire dozens of life-size animals made from old scrap metal, nuts, screws, and valves.

A massive sculpture of an obscure Celtic coin that has become a symbol in Slovakia.

The largest fountain in Bratislava.

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

The 700-year-old fortress was the site of Count Orlok's castle in "Nosferatu."

Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

The housing complex served as an anti-fascist fortress during the Austrian Civil War.

A patriotic medieval knight in driven-nail armor raised money for widows and orphans of WWI.

This grand manse has been transformed into a museum devoted to one of the founders of Fantastic Realism.

Inside the corridors of this flea market, visitors are sure to find some obscure and odd treasures.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

Vienna's underworld of tunnels and subterranean rivers made an iconic appearance in a 1949 Orson Welles film.

Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.