Increasingly decayed figures stand as a powerful reminder of the human costs of Czech Communism.

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

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

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

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

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

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

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

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

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

Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.

Unsurprisingly, Holland is home to one of the most magnificent flower gardens in the world.

A public urinal so pretty, it was declared a national monument.

A reconstructed medieval gateway that was the magnificent entrance to the capital city dating back to 1037.

The medieval prince founded the first library in Ukraine at Saint Sophia's Cathedral where he was interred.

A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.