An intentionally grounded cargo ship remains half-buried in the sand.

The same water that fills a luxury resort’s pools feeds these free hot springs in the rainforest.

Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

A cemetery for Slovenian notables also serves as a popular recreation space.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.

A relic from the Industrial Revolution got a second life as a contemporary performing arts space.

A public work of art that also provides some relief from the summer heat.

Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.

A World War II evacuation tunnel turned into a history display of Croatian state and people.

This 135-year-old weather station studied the effects of the climate on human health.

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

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.

A much-loved sculpture depicting the hero of a 1956 anti-Soviet uprising.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

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

This statue points to another unusual companion work of art often overlooked by visitors.

A massive sculpture of an obscure Celtic coin that has become a symbol in Slovakia.

Straight out of a nightmare, barcode-faced babies climb up and down Prague's television tower.

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

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.