Places grantavery 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.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

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

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

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

After 11 years of reconstruction work, Slovakia's finest hilltop chapel complex is finally reopen to the public.

The ruins of a 13th-century monastery that long served as a place of refuge from wars and raids.

An extraordinary museum devoted to the pop art legend created by Slovak artists.

Climb around the high waterfalls on series of iron ladders and bridges within the wildest gorge in the Slovak Paradise.

The blood-soaked ruins of the castle where the murderous Blood Countess was walled in alive.

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

A perfectly preserved hill village where the buildings are painted like white lace.

The medieval "dragon" on an Austrian city's coat-of-arms comes to life in a fountain.

The site of Austria's biggest concentration camp now honors its victims.

Two nations form a rare four-sided border at the peak of a mountain, philosophical questions result.

The first modernist church in Europe.

A magnificent collection of imperial armor and weaponry.

The world's most important buildings shrunk to a tiny size.

Austria's very first and only nuclear power station was completed but never used.

The world's largest historic armory was established by independent citizens to defend themselves from the wars of larger forces.

This spire on an Austrian mountain is wrapped around a long spiral slide and has the world's tallest wooden observation deck.

This 19th century cyclorama acts like an analogue time machine to a different era.

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

The shell of a medieval fortress offers commanding views of the area it once protected.