This beautiful arched gate is all that remains of the fortress the ancient mountaintop town of Amadiya once was.

The sacred shrine of the Yazidis.

The legendary fortress of a female Kurdish warrior leader.

Qshla Koya is an Ottoman fortress located on a hillock in the central quarter of Koya.

At the heart of an otherwise bustling city lies some oddly abandoned and ignored historical ruins.

An ancient fortified mound raised over the millennia from settlements built one on top of the other.

A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.

A beautiful Greco-Roman structure houses a well once believed to have healing powers.

A colossal statue of a woman hugging a modern building.

This charming wooden church was disassembled and moved not once but twice before settling in this Prague garden.

The largest and best-preserved rotunda in Prague.

A small monument on the outskirts of Prague, where one of the bloodiest conflicts in the country's history was decided.

A quasi-futuristic roof sits atop a medieval Bohemian monastery damaged during World War II.

A historic and beautiful Art Nouveau chamber in a historic railway station.

Local folklore claims that this wall was not built for defense, but to provide labor during a time of famine.

A half-buried vehicle in Prague's is the latest iteration in a long-running piece by Czech artist David Černý.

Nine bronze hands protruding from a wall honor the student uprising that led to the fall of Czechoslovakia's Communist government.

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

Straight out of a nightmare, barcode-faced babies climb up and down Prague's television tower.

Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.

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

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

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

This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.