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

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

A giant glider—designed by the father of the Rubik's Cube's designer—now soars within a shopping mall.

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.

Dine on Hungarian-Jewish dishes at this multigenerational, family-run institution.

This Hungarian stilt village is built in a lake that never freezes over due to the power plant that that uses it as a cooling pond.

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

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

Some of the greatest minds in the history of Hungarian art and science converged in this café.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

From Austrians to Nazis to Soviets, this historic Budapest fortress has a history as complex as the city itself.

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

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

A surreal monument depicting a five-armed giant supporting a toppling cylinder seal.

The home of Iraq's former prime minister now houses historical manuscripts.

This former monument to an invented Iraqi victory was turned into a military camp during the subsequent invasion.

A bloody history is captured in this former prison turned museum.

A 2200 year old vessel may have been able to keep a charge.

An ancient sanctuary that has long been a holy site for the Chaldean Christian Church.

A giant bisected onion dome remembers the Iraqis who died in the Iran-Iraq War.

Giant reed houses made in the marshes of Southern Iraq.

A 605-page Quran penned in the blood of a dictator is locked away in a mosque.

This beautiful arched gate is all that remains of the fortress the ancient mountaintop town of Amadiya once was.