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

A 13th-century convent where St. Margaret of Hungary spent her teenage years.

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

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

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

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

This statue of a falling man commemorates a teenage martyr of the Hungarian Revolution.

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

Late at night, the bust of the "Dracula" actor was snuck onto the facade of this Budapest castle.

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

Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

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

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

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

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

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

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

This uncanny fresco celebrating the "triumph of death" was split into four pieces to be moved to another museum.

An abandoned shopping gallery built during Fascist Italy tucked in the center of Palermo.

A study of Fascist era Art Deco design in Italy.

This skeletal, unfinished Gothic church once housed a miraculous masterpiece by Raphael.

This amazingly preserved Doric temple was abandoned before it was ever completed.

Leveled by an earthquake, this Italian village is now preserved as a massive concrete art project.

This entire town moved to a safe location after it was devastated by an earthquake, but the remains of the original town are still around.