The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

This statue celebrating everyday life in Dublin has a few unsavory nicknames.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

This strange sculpture depicts a giant nightmare hare crushing a man to death beneath its colossal bulk.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

An ornate sculpture of an ox in repose marks the former entrance to Nuremberg's medieval meat market, which was destroyed during World War II.

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

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

A patriotic medieval knight in driven-nail armor raised money for widows and orphans of WWI.

In the middle of a Vienna square, Roman ruins dating back some 2,000 years are on display.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.