Sinaia, Romania
Peleș Castle
This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.
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Sinaia, Romania
This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.
Bran, Romania
The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."
Turda, Romania
This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.
Hunedoara, Romania
This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.
Bratislava, Slovakia
No one knows the origin of this creepy little stone man with an oversized phallus.
Levoča, Slovakia
Too much gossip or just missing curfew could land you in here for a couple of days.
Medzilaborce, Slovakia
An extraordinary museum devoted to the pop art legend created by Slovak artists.
Bratislava, Slovakia
A once-fairy tale mansion now stands in a state of disrepair.
Bratislava, Slovakia
A line of disused military bunkers built to defend against Nazi invasion lies hidden on the outskirts of the city.
Bratislava, Slovakia
This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.
Hrabušice, Slovakia
Climb around the high waterfalls on series of iron ladders and bridges within the wildest gorge in the Slovak Paradise.
Bratislava, Slovakia
This spaceship sculpture in the middle of the Slovakian capital looks like it just crash-landed.
Šiatorská Bukovinka, Slovakia
Inside the Šomoška National Nature Reserve exists a unique rock formation rarely seen in the world.
Čičmany, Slovakia
A perfectly preserved hill village where the buildings are painted like white lace.
Višňové, Slovakia
The blood-soaked ruins of the castle where the murderous Blood Countess was walled in alive.
Oravský Podzámok, Slovakia
The 700-year-old fortress was the site of Count Orlok's castle in "Nosferatu."
Prague, Czechia
Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.
Prague, Czechia
A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.
Prague, Czechia
Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.
Prague, Czechia
A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.
Prague, Czechia
A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.
Berlin, Germany
You've probably seen these distinctive orange-tiled columns on the big screen.
Amberg, Germany
This extremely narrow tenement boasts a maximum occupancy of just two.
Königswinter, Germany
A ruined castle stands atop a hill surrounded by dragon lore.