The townhouse where the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory started her murderous career.

Vienna's diversity-themed traffic lights were inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest.

Arguably Belgrade's only example of pure Art Deco architecture.

A pink sandstone column once used in ancient times to measure one's belly after a night of debauchery.

One of Serbia's oldest luxury hotels and a nostalgic echo to Yugoslavia in the state's former capital.

This memorial to a murdered empress took 20 years to design, then spent 30 years hidden away in storage.

A mechanical clock built in 1914, with a rotation of 12 historical figures on its face.

Memorial to the victims of the Holocaust in Serbia.

Also known as Uncle Karl, the beloved bronze copper keeps a watchful eye on St. Stephen’s Basilica while people rub his lucky belly.

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

This narrow fjord-like bay is the largest ria in the Mediterranean Sea.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

This tiny chapel withstood a massive mudslide and flash flood.

This amazing medieval fortress stands atop a promontory along the famous Cinque Terre.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

Strange rumors surround the artist who created these solemn metal guard dogs.

In between two buildings in Ljubljana, medieval tunnel to nowhere.

A retro Yugoslav congress, cultural, and business hall built in the 1970s, with an iconic world clock.

Two buildings named after their windows that make it look like a sea of television sets plastered to a wall.

Considered an architectural abomination by some, this metal-clad building is known as 'little red riding hood' by locals.

Here lies a legend of three sisters, all in love with the same mariner.

An Art Deco Icarus statue adorns this abandoned gem of Yugoslav Modernist architecture.