This memorial to a murdered empress took 20 years to design, then spent 30 years hidden away in storage.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Hungarian Jews were ghettoized during the Second World War, but little remains of the original wall that closed the Jewish people off from the rest of the city.

This sculpture honors the man who was known as the "Righteous Among the Nations."

This quiet, unassuming spot in Budapest was the birthplace of the bloody 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

An amateur telescope-making club has been gathering at this Vermont site for more than a century.

Dine on Hungarian-Jewish dishes at this multigenerational, family-run institution.

The world's newest astronomical clock is also its most accurate.

A perfectly preserved hill village where the buildings are painted like white lace.

After 11 years of reconstruction work, Slovakia's finest hilltop chapel complex is finally reopen to the public.

This historic electric train has operated with regularity since the early 1900s.

This spaceship sculpture in the middle of the Slovakian capital looks like it just crash-landed.

In an area known in Bratislava’s postal history, this sculpture sits equipped with a functional postbox.

This statue points to another unusual companion work of art often overlooked by visitors.

The memorial stands at the intersection of the rivers Morava and Danube.

The site is dedicated to an investigative journalist whose murder triggered a political uproar that changed Slovakia forever.

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