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 stone woman in a stylized dress honors a courageous politician.

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

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

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

On Gellért Hill, this statue depicts the tragic tale of lovers divided by the Danube.

Tucked away near more famous landmarks lies a statue meant to symbolize the confluence and continuing development of human culture.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

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

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

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

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

This easily overlooked memorial immortalizes the scars from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

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

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?

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

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

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

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

A scene from one of Hungary's most famous novels.

The largest statue of this convex, homogeneous object with just one stable and one unstable equilibrium point.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?