Budapest, Hungary
Mihály Kolodko's Mini Statues
From cartoon characters to tiny tanks, a guerilla sculptor's little bronze statues are hidden throughout the city of Budapest.
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Budapest, Hungary
From cartoon characters to tiny tanks, a guerilla sculptor's little bronze statues are hidden throughout the city of Budapest.
Budapest, Hungary
Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.
Budapest, Hungary
The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.
Budapest, Hungary
A bronze woman in a stylized dress honors a courageous politician.
Budapest, Hungary
This easily overlooked memorial immortalizes the scars from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
Budapest, Hungary
This building has survived for more than a century and remains virtually untouched.
Budapest, Hungary
A statue in Budapest's Liberty Square honors the former U.S. president's efforts to end the Cold War.
Budapest, Hungary
A highly-criticized monument in Budapest has become the site of a makeshift Holocaust memorial.
Budapest, Hungary
Also known as Uncle Karl, the beloved bronze copper keeps a watchful eye on St. Stephen’s Basilica while people rub his lucky belly.
Budapest, Hungary
A random tree outside a Budapest hotel has become a DIY shrine to the late singer.
Budapest, Hungary
A diminutive statue that was inspired by the sculptor's own daughter.
Budapest, Hungary
How did an Australian statue of the Bard of Avon end up in the Hungarian capital?
Budapest, Hungary
A 13th-century convent where St. Margaret of Hungary spent her teenage years.
Esztergom, Hungary
An abandoned cable car station located on the Danube stands like a haunted house above the river.
Bratislava, Slovakia
Thousands of slain Soviet soldiers are buried within the shadow of this enormous obelisk.
Bratislava, Slovakia
The largest fountain in Bratislava.
Bratislava, Slovakia
In an area known in Bratislava’s postal history, this sculpture sits equipped with a functional postbox.
Bratislava, Slovakia
The site is dedicated to an investigative journalist whose murder triggered a political uproar that changed Slovakia forever.
Bratislava, Slovakia
An unconventional memorial to the women burned as witches in Bratislava.
Bratislava, Slovakia
A series of bronze circus performers spread throughout a Slovakian shopping center.
Bratislava, Slovakia
Often mistaken as a medieval Gothic monument, this unique cornerstone only dates back to the 1980s.
Bratislava, Slovakia
Brass plaques embedded in pavement preserve the memories of those who lost their lives at the hands of Nazis during World War II.
Bratislava, Slovakia
No one knows the origin of this creepy little stone man with an oversized phallus.
Bratislava, Slovakia
This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.