A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

A relic of World War I that now exist as a piece of public art.

A triumphant marble and bronze fountain depicting a 15th-century Hungarian king and his hunting party.

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

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

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

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

Beautiful antiques and obscure engineering artifacts trace the evolution of phones from rare luxuries to ubiquitous.

The true meaning behind this sculpture remains unknown.

The oldest private art gallery in all of Hungary.

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

This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.

Also known as the Blue Church, the building was consecrated to the daughter of Andrew II.

A sculpture of the beloved author surrounded by characters from his fairy tales.

Dedicated to a synagogue that was destroyed after having survived World War II.

No one knows the origin of this creepy little stone man with an oversized phallus.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

A sculpture of a beloved local figure, who tipped his top hat to everyone he passed on the streets of Bratislava.

An ode to a soldier who came to town, fell in love, then began making his own sparkling wine.

Launched by Napoleon's soldiers more than 200 years ago, a cannonball remains embedded in the tower wall.

Brass plaques embedded in pavement preserve the memories of those who lost their lives at the hands of Nazis during World War II.

In an area known in Bratislava’s postal history, this sculpture sits equipped with a functional postbox.

The largest fountain in Bratislava.