A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.

The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.

Nine centuries-old fortresses guard the walls of this medieval Romanian city.

This hauntingly beautiful cemetery outside a medieval citadel is full of winding paths and ivy-covered graves.

This is the birthplace of Vlad the Impaler Vlad III Dracul.

A NATO bombing took the lives of 16 civilians in 1999—the ruins remain in the center of Belgrade.

Memorial to the 89 children killed during the NATO bombing of Serbia.

Nikola Tesla's ashes are held in a golden sphere, surrounded by his works.

A wellspring of natural Viagra found in Bosnia.

Legend has it fairies gathered at the site of this medieval castle.

A statue of Paulina Hermann, the eccentric noblewoman known as the "mother of cats."

A tribute to an iconic act of defiance from the Croatian War of Independence involving a small car.

The abandoned military base looks like a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

One of the largest barracks of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy's military is now an abandoned ruin.

Hungarian Jews were ghettoized during the Second World War, but little remains of the original wall that closed the Jewish people off from the rest of the city.

Time stands still at this serene burial ground in the center of Budapest.

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

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

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

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

The dome-shaped reservoir of this old water tower produces unique acoustic effects.

The world's only above water sand volcano, believed to once be the bathtub of a priest.

Micro-nation based around a nine-story high illegally built tower.