The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

This statue of a falling man commemorates a teenage martyr of the Hungarian Revolution.

A statue in Budapest's Liberty Square honors the former U.S. president's efforts to end the Cold War.

Tucked away near more famous landmarks lies a statue meant to symbolize the confluence and continuing development of human culture.

Beautiful antiques and obscure engineering artifacts trace the evolution of phones from rare luxuries to ubiquitous.

A random tree outside a Budapest hotel has become a DIY shrine to the late singer.

Late at night, the bust of the "Dracula" actor was snuck onto the facade of this Budapest castle.

A fake Transylvanian castle houses a cathedral of antlers.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

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

From Austrians to Nazis to Soviets, this historic Budapest fortress has a history as complex as the city itself.

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.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

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

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

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

What once sat in the world’s spotlight is today a largely disused ghost complex.

This gem is often wrongly overshadowed by the larger, newer Metropolis church in Athens.

The oldest olive tree in Greece has been bearing fruit for at least 2,000 years.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.