A plaque marks the spot where the saint was shoved off the Charles Bridge and into the river.

The medieval "Bearded Man" relief still serves as a clever flood warning marker.

One of the famous Czech artist's lesser-known Prague installations appears to be a glowing fetus affixed to a drainpipe.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

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

This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.

Throughout this shopping mall are medieval ruins that were discovered during the mall's construction.

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

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

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

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

The largest treasure hoard in Europe is contained in a castle that was bombed out during World War II.

An exquisite panometer representing Dresden as it was from 1695 to 1760.

A moving and macabre World War I-era painting by the great artist Otto Dix.

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

A famous big wave from Japan serves as a tribute to the victims of the disastrous Elbe flood.

Tourists often confuse this beautifully ornate former cigarette factory for a mosque.

Once home to some 250,000 volumes and priceless art artifacts, this Polish estate was a target of bombing during World War II.

Warsaw's fantastically preserved gasworks...almost.

These plaques found across Warsaw commemorate the sites where executions or battles took place during the German occupation.

The final resting place of the last "gypsy king" of Poland.