This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

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.

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

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

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

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

A statue in Budapest's Liberty Square honors the former U.S. president's efforts to end the Cold War.

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

The metal leaves on this tree are engraved with the names of Holocaust victims.

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