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

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

The ruined remains of the airport Claus von Stauffenberg departed in his failed attempt to kill Adolf Hitler.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

An ornate century-old elevator still connects the two halves of Bad Schandau.

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

To the great disappointment of doomsdayers, this codex merely contains records of the Moon and Venus.

Europe's largest natural bridge has a 19th century royal chateau built into its side.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet, your wish will be granted.

Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.

An Orwellian sculpture with eyeball cameras watches passersby.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

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

This Gothic church was wheeled in its entirety to a new location a half a mile away.

Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.

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

A controversial artwork draws attention to the dark history of Prague's "Suicide Bridge."