Budapest, Hungary
Vajdahunyad Castle
This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.
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Budapest, Hungary
This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.
Budapest, Hungary
A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.
Padua, Italy
The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.
Heidelberg, Germany
It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
This medieval cathedral houses stained-glass windows featuring saints and pretzels.
Lucerne, Switzerland
This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.
Lucerne, Switzerland
This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.
Rome, Italy
The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.
Albano Laziale, Italy
Things seem to roll, flow and run uphill on this short patch of road near Ariccia, Italy.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Leiden, Netherlands
This early 19th-century graveyard is the final resting place of Vincent van Gogh's mother.
Bergen, Norway
The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.
Prague, Czechia
This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.
Prague, Czechia
An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."
Prague, Czechia
Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
An ever-growing literary collection housed in the apartment where the Russian author penned his final novel.
Strasbourg, France
Explore this medieval cathedral by trying to spot all the malevolent monsters hiding in its beautifully colored windows.
Chiusdino, Italy
These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.
Matera, Italy
People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.
Naples, Italy
Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.
Rome, Italy
A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.
Naples, Italy
A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.
Chiusdino, Italy
This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.
Naples, Italy
These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.