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

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

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

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

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.

This easily overlooked memorial immortalizes the scars from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

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.

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

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

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

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

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

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

A triumphant marble and bronze fountain depicting a 15th-century Hungarian king and his hunting party.

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

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

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

Beautiful antiques and obscure engineering artifacts trace the evolution of phones from rare luxuries to ubiquitous.

The true meaning behind this sculpture remains unknown.