Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

A concrete plant shaped like four giant soldiers commemorates one of the most decisive battles of the Napoleonic Wars.

A cheeky architectural easter egg.

A peculiar clock commemorates a historic victory won by ringing the noonday bell an hour early.

This hanging crocodile is thought to be the "dragon" that once plagued a Czech city.

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

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

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

A unique hotel for the artistic soul.

This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.

An exquisite Baroque church in Vienna's old town.

The solemn exterior conceals an opulent interior of this 17th century church.

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

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

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

On a winding Vienna side street, one museum has turned their windows into a monument to history’s peace-minded heroes.

The townhouse where the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory started her murderous career.

A small marionette collection located within the dark cellars of an 11th-century Austrian castle.

The beautiful, ornate weather station is the most popular geocache in Salzburg.

Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.