Prague, Czechia
House of the Black Madonna
A significant example of Czech cubist architecture—a style you won't find anywhere else in the world.
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Prague, Czechia
A significant example of Czech cubist architecture—a style you won't find anywhere else in the world.
Prague, Czechia
Tucked away in a Prague park, a statue beloved by romantics honors a poet so nice they buried him twice.
Prague, Czechia
Straight out of a nightmare, barcode-faced babies climb up and down Prague's television tower.
Prague, Czechia
Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.
Prague, Czechia
A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.
Prague, Czechia
The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.
Prague, Czechia
Increasingly decayed figures stand as a powerful reminder of the human costs of Czech Communism.
Prague, Czechia
This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.
Prague, Czechia
A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.
Prague, Czechia
The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.
Prague, Czechia
Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.
Prague, Czechia
This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.
Prague, Czechia
Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.
Prague, Czechia
What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.
Prague, Czechia
A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.
Prague, Czechia
This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”
Prague, Czechia
Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.
Prague, Czechia
Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.
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A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Prague, Czechia
The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.
Prague, Czechia
Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.
Prague, Czechia
Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.
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A stunning church overlooking the water that you will have all to yourself.
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Legends hold that these unusual rock formations were once a bridal party, or perhaps a group of hunters.