A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

A tiny, hidden alleyway dedicated to the father of meteorology.

A 19th-century time capsule of travel, fiction, and historic texts still available to the public.

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

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

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

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

This bar and museum are devoted to the controversial comic book work of Kája Saudek.

Tucked away in a Prague park, a statue beloved by romantics honors a poet so nice they buried him twice.

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

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A million and a half tons of earth were used to create one of the world's largest land sculptures.

Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.

An ancient stone fortress considered by many to be the eighth wonder of the world.

The beams of the New College, Oxford dining hall come with an amazing story.

A theatre built to house the rowdy Oxford graduation ceremonies became the stage for a debate about God's existence.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

This 11th century tower is said to be the oldest building in Oxford.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

Spend the night inside a two-story elephant villa.

A Bohemian "anti-hotel" offers off-kilter stays in Sri Lanka.

This elaborate temple was built around one of the Buddha's teeth.