A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

This bell stars in a tragic love tale and is said to make wishes come true.

This enormous 32-foot painting depicts Poland's greatest medieval battle in glorious detail.

Special benches that play Chopin's music are scattered throughout his native city.

The giant statue and its model solar system honor the native Pole who declared that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

The Polish capital has had a deep connection to its guardian mermaid for almost a millennium now.

A statue honors the children who fought Nazis in Poland.

A menacing statue of this mythical creature can be seen at the legendary site of the monster's lair.

The world’s narrowest house makes for an awkward, four-foot-wide living space.

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

Time stands still at this serene burial ground in the center of Budapest.

A fake Transylvanian castle houses a cathedral of antlers.

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

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

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

The romantic garden was the epicenter of the Hungarian art scene in the 1880s.

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

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

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

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

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.