Places Jlander Wants to Go

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

A 13th-century convent where St. Margaret of Hungary spent her teenage years.

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

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

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

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

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

Rediscovered underground chapel is one of the best examples of Gothic architecture in Vienna.

An ornate private entrance to the Vienna subway built specifically for the emperor.

Visiting this café is like visiting the Austrian grandma you wish you had.

Inside the corridors of this flea market, visitors are sure to find some obscure and odd treasures.

A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

The oldest garden in Prague, once part of an medieval orchard.

This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.