A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

Where visitors can play more than 150 retro arcade games.

A Soviet era flat that refused to conform to the dull gray standards.

Remnants from a time before electricity.

The preserved arm of a third-century sorcerer is believed to have the power to lift curses and spells.

Hungarian Jews were ghettoized during the Second World War, but little remains of the original wall that closed the Jewish people off from the rest of the city.

This off-beat, quirky communism-themed bar isn't afraid to poke fun at its history.

A diminutive statue that was inspired by the sculptor's own daughter.

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

A triumphant marble and bronze fountain depicting a 15th-century Hungarian king and his hunting party.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

This metro station doubles as an unintentional paleontology museum.

This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.

This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.

This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

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

The bust of Romania’s most notorious ruler, Vlad Dracula aka "Vlad the Impaler," keeps watch over the ruins of his medieval court.

Something's watching you.

This hauntingly beautiful cemetery outside a medieval citadel is full of winding paths and ivy-covered graves.

Nine centuries-old fortresses guard the walls of this medieval Romanian city.

Over the centuries, this island paradise has done it all, from providing monks with ecclesiastical respite to sheltering an exiled Leon Trotsky.

Ancient serpentine sacrifice holder that has stood the test of time.

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.