Places mossenmoons Wants to Go

The romantic botanic tunnel feels like a well-kept secret.

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

This solitary monastery may hold the remains of Vlad the Impaler (but probably not).

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

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

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

Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

An abandoned 19th-century iron factory perched along the outskirts of an idyllic village.

A relic of the Cold War tucked away in the forested hills above Bratislava.

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

A gorgeous stone viaduct crosses over a bucolic valley.

After 11 years of reconstruction work, Slovakia's finest hilltop chapel complex is finally reopen to the public.

An unusual cave filled with rare alien-looking aragonite formations.

Also known as the Blue Church, the building was consecrated to the daughter of Andrew II.

The ruins of a 13th-century monastery that long served as a place of refuge from wars and raids.

A once-fairy tale mansion now stands in a state of disrepair.

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

The world's newest astronomical clock is also its most accurate.

Climb around the high waterfalls on series of iron ladders and bridges within the wildest gorge in the Slovak Paradise.

Inside the Šomoška National Nature Reserve exists a unique rock formation rarely seen in the world.

A perfectly preserved hill village where the buildings are painted like white lace.

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

A unique hotel for the artistic soul.