A series of playful yellow penguins share a serious message about the environment.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

A sculpture of the iconic East German car on four legs is a tribute to those who traveled to Prague seeking asylum.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

One of the famous Czech artist's lesser-known Prague installations appears to be a glowing fetus affixed to a drainpipe.

Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

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

This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

Throughout this shopping mall are medieval ruins that were discovered during the mall's construction.

From cartoon characters to tiny tanks, a guerilla sculptor's little bronze statues are hidden throughout the city of Budapest.

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

The Hungarian biochemist whose research helped develop mRNA-based vaccines for Covid-19.

A plaque bearing the names of those who dedicated themselves to protecting Budapest's Jewish population during World War II.

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