A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

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

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A peculiar clock commemorates a historic victory won by ringing the noonday bell an hour early.

This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.

An ode to a soldier who came to town, fell in love, then began making his own sparkling wine.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

A cheeky architectural easter egg.

A former top secret nuclear fallout shelter now operates like a hotel stuck in the Cold War.

A series of bronze circus performers spread throughout a Slovakian shopping center.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The holes in this wall provide a glimpse into Jewish life in Budapest, both past and present.

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

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

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

Some of the greatest minds in the history of Hungarian art and science converged in this café.

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

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