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

How did an Australian statue of the Bard of Avon end up in the Hungarian capital?

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

A random tree outside a Budapest hotel has become a DIY shrine to the late singer.

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

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

The geographical center of Budapest is marked with a 10-foot-tall stylized zero.

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.

A bronze woman in a stylized dress honors a courageous politician.

This building has survived for more than a century and remains virtually untouched.

A statue in Budapest's Liberty Square honors the former U.S. president's efforts to end the Cold War.

From cartoon characters to tiny tanks, a guerilla sculptor's little bronze statues are hidden throughout the city of Budapest.

A highly-criticized monument in Budapest has become the site of a makeshift Holocaust memorial.

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

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 sculpture honors the man who was known as the "Righteous Among the Nations."

This quiet, unassuming spot in Budapest was the birthplace of the bloody 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

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

A perfectly preserved hill village where the buildings are painted like white lace.

The world's newest astronomical clock is also its most accurate.

After 11 years of reconstruction work, Slovakia's finest hilltop chapel complex is finally reopen to the public.

This historic electric train has operated with regularity since the early 1900s.

This spaceship sculpture in the middle of the Slovakian capital looks like it just crash-landed.