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St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

This Polish cave has housed a dragon, a brothel, and an enduring legend.

Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

The earliest known map to show America, discovered by accident at a Paris bookshop.

This macabre masterpiece of a mural is one of Francisco Goya's "Black Paintings."

This funky former tobacco factory is one of the most striking examples of Madrid's cultural diversity.

The lengthy skeleton of one of the tallest Spaniards of all time is on display in Madrid.

These three pillboxes still remain as a witness of the Spanish Civil War in a park of Madrid.

Remains of the lost church hide beneath this Spanish Parliament building.

The morbid items in this small and hidden museum are not for the weak stomached.

From Austrians to Nazis to Soviets, this historic Budapest fortress has a history as complex as the city itself.

This easily overlooked memorial immortalizes the scars from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

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

Electrical curiosity museum housed in an old transformer station.

A lovers' beach, tucked below the surface of the island, provides a safe haven for romance.

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

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

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

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

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

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

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

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, this botanical garden is a treasure trove of rare flora.