A vivid and terrifying mural blends pop-culture-style depictions of Hell with traditional Orthodox imagery.

This oversized tribute to the nation's tiniest coin highlights the value of small contributions.

This abandoned Soviet circus is slowly being restored to its Communist-era glory.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

Some call this eerie forest of crooked trees the "Bermuda Triangle of Romania."

Several rooms flooded with 35mm film reel.

This Transylvanian church has changed its denomination four times.

The Natural History Museum that time forgot.

Known as the Hintz House, this medieval pharmacy has been an apothecary's haven for nearly 450 years.

An extraordinary museum devoted to the pop art legend created by Slovak artists.

One of the few cold geysers in Europe, its eruptions are powered by carbon dioxide.

This region of Slovakia boasts some of the most plentiful opal mines in the world.

Pay your respects to a country that only existed for a few weeks.

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

A towering sword embedded in the ground commemorates the legendary Slavic ruler.

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

A sculpture of a beloved local figure, who tipped his top hat to everyone he passed on the streets of Bratislava.

An ode to a soldier who came to town, fell in love, then began making his own sparkling wine.

Launched by Napoleon's soldiers more than 200 years ago, a cannonball remains embedded in the tower wall.

No one knows the origin of this creepy little stone man with an oversized phallus.

A sculpture of the beloved author surrounded by characters from his fairy tales.

Dedicated to a synagogue that was destroyed after having survived World War II.

Often mistaken as a medieval Gothic monument, this unique cornerstone only dates back to the 1980s.

Brass plaques embedded in pavement preserve the memories of those who lost their lives at the hands of Nazis during World War II.