This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

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

This statue honors one of Budapest's most beloved literary characters.

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

A relic of World War I that now exist as a piece of public art.

The romantic garden was the epicenter of the Hungarian art scene in the 1880s.

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

A gift from Emperor Franz Joseph I to his wife.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

The true meaning behind this sculpture remains unknown.

A fake Transylvanian castle houses a cathedral of antlers.

Take a hike to this unique rock formation formed by lava flows.

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

This castle was designed to have as many windows as there are days in the year.

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

300 years of pharmaceutical history on display.

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.

This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.

The medieval "dragon" on an Austrian city's coat-of-arms comes to life in a fountain.

The world's most important buildings shrunk to a tiny size.

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