Prague, Czechia
ÄŒerny's Buried Soviet Tank
A half-buried vehicle in Prague's is the latest iteration in a long-running piece by Czech artist David Černý.
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Prague, Czechia
A half-buried vehicle in Prague's is the latest iteration in a long-running piece by Czech artist David Černý.
Prague, Czechia
Nine bronze hands protruding from a wall honor the student uprising that led to the fall of Czechoslovakia's Communist government.
Prague, Czechia
A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.
Prague, Czechia
Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.
Prague, Czechia
A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.
Prague, Czechia
Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.
Brno, Czechia
This strange statue depicts a young boy's body with an adult Mozart's head and a single wing.
Brno, Czechia
This hanging crocodile is thought to be the "dragon" that once plagued a Czech city.
Brno, Czechia
A peculiar clock commemorates a historic victory won by ringing the noonday bell an hour early.
Asheville, North Carolina
Classy up your Big Mac with bow-tied servers and chandeliers at the world's fanciest McDonald's.
Corolla, North Carolina
This 1920s mansion in the Outer Banks has some of the best examples of Art Nouveau ornamentations in the United States.
Raleigh, North Carolina
A mini-Stonehenge in the corner of the North Carolina state capitol grounds.
Canton, North Carolina
On a clear afternoon, you can see mountain peaks more than 40 miles away from this clearing in the Pisgah National Forest.
Robbinsville, North Carolina
Marvel at 400-year-old trees in one of the last remaining old-growth Appalachian forests.
Asheville, North Carolina
Sculptor Vadim Bora's bronze felines pay playful homage to architectural features no longer extant along Asheville's Wall Street.
Thomasville, North Carolina
A 30-foot-tall cement chair pays tribute to a historic design and a local industry.
Raleigh, North Carolina
This family-owned diner has been slinging chili dogs since 1940.
Boone, North Carolina
One of the oldest Black communities in western North Carolina and one of the largest Black Mennonite congregations in the country.
Raleigh, North Carolina
This hollow steel globe is the second-largest in the world.
Raleigh, North Carolina
A water pumping station disguised as a residential home to assuage concerned neighbors now tricks most passersby.
Hatteras, North Carolina
This historic sunny-yellow building has an unfortunate connection to the sinking of the Titanic.
Ocracoke, North Carolina
The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.
Hillsborough, North Carolina
One of the few surviving original NASCAR dirt-track speedways.
Hatteras, North Carolina
The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.