Spitfire airplanes with butterfly wings hover over Prague’s skyline.

The room where the famous commander of the Catholic forces was murdered by Irish assassins during the Thirty Years' War has been reconstructed with many of his original possessions.

Tall columns of volcanic basalt make up this improbable-seeming rock formation.

Dedicated to the man who saved hundreds of children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.

The oldest garden in Prague, once part of an medieval orchard.

The risqué mixed-media sculptures are supposedly a metaphor for Czech politics.

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

Another beautiful spot in the hidden universe of Eames Demetrios.

An angel that hatched from an egg!

An open-air art gallery that aims to share the stories of the people who live around it.

This micro-nation may be some sort of prank, but its constitution sure seems official.

A 300-kilogram egg sculpture that embodied a neighborhood revival.

A 15-foot-tall statue of the head of the Sopranos family greets passengers at a train station in southeastern Lithuania.

A century-old prison in the heart of Vilnius is now a lively bar, dance club, and artist residency.

Travelers who fall victim to this mermaid's charms are destined to stay in Užupis forever.

Legend has it that Napoleon Bonaparte fell in love with this Gothic church.

Latvia’s first skyscraper, nicknamed ‘Stalin’s birthday cake.’

The statue of a legendary giant who carried Christ and shouldered the world's sins.

This charming Latvian lane doubled as Baker Street on the Soviet Union’s version of Sherlock Holmes.

This celebration of Latvia’s freedom and independence avoided demolition over half a century of Soviet occupation.

This enigmatic artifact remained buried in a churchyard for years.

The reconstruction of this prominent building fulfilled a long-written command.

Latvia's symbolic mountain-shaped national library is home to millions of cultural tomes.

A black cat protests the City Guild in Riga's Old Town.