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

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

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

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

The rusted creatures wait to be discovered in Prague's botanical garden.

A controversial artwork draws attention to the dark history of Prague's "Suicide Bridge."

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

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

This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.

A bus with a butt and biceps to put Olympic athletes to shame.

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

A sculpture of the iconic East German car on four legs is a tribute to those who traveled to Prague seeking asylum.

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

Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.

An existential riddle in the world's largest ancient castle.

One man's personal collection of KGB memorabilia is presented along with his strange viewpoint.

An Orwellian sculpture with eyeball cameras watches passersby.

What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.