Created as a "model concentration camp" to hide Nazi atrocities from the international community, this former camp-ghetto now holds a museum and memorial honoring the lives lost within.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

This walkway is so narrow it needs its own light to stop pedestrian traffic jams.

The oldest garden in Prague, once part of an medieval orchard.

Spitfire airplanes with butterfly wings hover over Prague’s skyline.

Nine bronze hands protruding from a wall honor the student uprising that led to the fall of Czechoslovakia's Communist government.

A significant example of Czech cubist architecture—a style you won't find anywhere else in the world.

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

A controversial “crumpet”-shaped museum tries its best to blend in with surrounding parkland.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.

The metal leaves on this tree are engraved with the names of Holocaust victims.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

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

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

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

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

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

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

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

Often mistaken as a medieval Gothic monument, this unique cornerstone only dates back to the 1980s.

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