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.

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

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

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

A Buddhist theme park brings you a Buddhist version of Hell.

This saucy statue once caused outrage among locals.

This mosque was based on Sub-Saharan Islamic architecture and created for the Senegalese Tirailleurs.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

These historical landmarks stand as reminders of the evolution of animal care and conservation.

A suspended footbridge allows for traversing this gorge carved through the French Alps.

This stone in Lake Geneva was once the reference point used to determine altitude in Switzerland.

The world's largest second-hand graces a clock surrounded by constantly changing flower beds. 

A plain wooden seat that once belonged to one of the most prominent figures of the Protestant Reformation.

One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.

On the side of a building, a depiction of the woman who became a local legend by tossing soup out her window.

Where two rivers meet—but don’t mix.

This secret Swiss fortress is disguised as a harmless pink house, complete with fake windows.

Part of this hotel resides in Switzerland, the other in France, and the border splits the honeymoon suite.

This long line of cement defensive wedges is named after the famous chocolate bar for obvious reasons.

Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.

A charming little museum founded by the designer of the Statue of Liberty.

The castle was reconstructed to fit Kaiser Wilhelm II's romanticized vision of the Middle Ages.