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A sculpture of the beloved author surrounded by characters from his fairy tales.

A cableway for car transport.

Thousands of slain Soviet soldiers are buried within the shadow of this enormous obelisk.

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

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

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

A sculpture of a beloved local figure, who tipped his top hat to everyone he passed on the streets of Bratislava.

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

This half-forgotten fortress was constructed by the Ottoman conqueror of Constantinople.

This column celebrates Rome's victory over the Goths, and may be the oldest Roman monument in Istanbul.

Five sultans and their families rest in eternal splendor, teeming with overlooked beauty and drama.

A meow-velous tribute to a beloved street cat, made famous on the internet.

Carvings in Turkey's Marble Road may have directed ancient Romans to a hidden brothel.

Cave on extinct volcano, once home to famous mathematician Pythagoras.

This ancient statue of Dionysus lies unfinished and abandoned in one of Greece's oldest quarries.

One of the largest sculpture collections in the U.K. features history's greats, from Bob Dylan to Galileo, in bronze.