Historic Banska Bystrica...

What today is Slovakia’s sixth largest city with around 78,000 occupants, was once Slovakia’s center of anti-Nazi opposition. The city was briefly occupied by the German forces before it was liberated by Soviet and Romanian troops in March 1945. 

I’ve been trying to remember to look up when exploring a new place and my efforts were rewarded with lots of cool things to see, such as lions...

 ...angry men...

 

...and this particularly strange human bird creature. 

Later I found a miniature version of The Scream attached to a random wall.