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

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

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

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

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

This open-air reconstruction of an Old West town, a cross between a theme park and a museum, provides an immersive historical experience.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

A cemetery for Slovenian notables also serves as a popular recreation space.

A relic from the Industrial Revolution got a second life as a contemporary performing arts space.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

A public work of art that also provides some relief from the summer heat.

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

Commemorating a unique medieval profession: men who collected feces.

A statue beloved by—and named by—the local townsfolk it represents.

An oversized, oddly designed pedestrian overpass has drawn comparisons to a commode for pachyderms.

This peculiar museum offers hands-on interaction with seemingly intangible principles of mathematics.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

A haunting contrast of trains that both saved and took the lives of Jewish children in Nazi Germany.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

A museum specifically dedicated to the Trabant, one of the iconic automobiles of the GDR.