Places inertiaquint 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.

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

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

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

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

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

This sculpture honors the man who was known as the "Righteous Among the Nations."

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

Legions of Roman soldiers bathed in this ancient spa complex under a Budapest transit station.

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

The romantic garden was the epicenter of the Hungarian art scene in the 1880s.

Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

Fully loaded, Tunisian-style sandwiches are on the menu at this unassuming hole-in-the-wall.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

A total of 22 tiny bridges cross this canal of the Yvette River, forming a unique trail.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

Jean Tinguely's bizarre monster sculpture is hidden deep in a forest.