Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

A much-loved sculpture depicting the hero of a 1956 anti-Soviet uprising.

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

No one knows the origin of this creepy little stone man with an oversized phallus.

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

A sculpture of a beloved local figure, who tipped his top hat to everyone he passed on the streets of Bratislava.

Launched by Napoleon's soldiers more than 200 years ago, a cannonball remains embedded in the tower wall.

An ode to a soldier who came to town, fell in love, then began making his own sparkling wine.

Dedicated to a synagogue that was destroyed after having survived World War II.

A sculpture of the beloved author surrounded by characters from his fairy tales.

In the middle of a Vienna square, Roman ruins dating back some 2,000 years are on display.

Austria's very first and only nuclear power station was completed but never used.

High in the Italian Alps, a lonely chapel with a striking view of the Matterhorn.

A crumbling World War I fort that is reached through a series of concrete tunnels.

A small marionette collection located within the dark cellars of an 11th-century Austrian castle.

When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.

American soldiers discovered Europe's best one-liner at the end of World War II.

This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

This granite mountain is the largest rock in Africa and the second-largest monolith in the world.