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

This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

One of the most iconic neon ads of former East Germany.

A spiral staircase twists to the top of this unusual Czech lookout tower.

This cubist Vienna church building looks like some sort of alien stonehenge.

Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

Collection dedicated to funeral rites, equipment, and mourning rituals of the Viennese.

The housing complex served as an anti-fascist fortress during the Austrian Civil War.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

A section of destroyed vertical lift bridge stands alone in the Peene river.

It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.

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

A former top secret nuclear fallout shelter now operates like a hotel stuck in the Cold War.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

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

An Orwellian sculpture with eyeball cameras watches passersby.

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

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

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