Kutna Hora, Czechia
Saint Barbara's Church
An enormous and lavish Gothic church in Czechia.
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Kutna Hora, Czechia
An enormous and lavish Gothic church in Czechia.
Liberec, Czechia
An unusual bronze bus shelter is actually an art installation commenting on the city's history with the Nazi party.
Znojmo, Czechia
This network of conjoined cellars was riddled with traps and supposedly allowed the townspeople to pretend their homes were deserted.
Brno, Czechia
A former top secret nuclear fallout shelter now operates like a hotel stuck in the Cold War.
Karlovy Vary, Czechia
Before serving as James Bond's Casino Royale, this Victorian-era spa catered to the world's elite.
Halbe, Germany
It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.
Prague, Czechia
Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.
Prague, Czechia
Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.
Prague, Czechia
Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.
Prague, Czechia
An Orwellian sculpture with eyeball cameras watches passersby.
Prague, Czechia
What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.
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.
Wieliczka, Poland
An underground city of salt.
Binz, Germany
Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.
Oswiecim, Poland
The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.
Ostrava, Czechia
A massive 1830s industrial site once known as Czechia's "Iron Heart" has been transformed into a playground of science, technology, and art.
Velké Losiny, Czechia
This renaissance château was home to an infamous witch hunter who sent a hundred suspected witches to their deaths.
Vilémovice, Czechia
The deepest sinkhole in Central Europe comes with a grisly tale and an unusual nickname: “The Stepmother Abyss.”
Olomouc, Czechia
Tiny communists hammer away on the Olomouc Astronomical Clock.
Olomouc, Czechia
An ornate plague column – built to celebrate life – claimed the lives of numerous artisans during its construction.
Slatina, Czechia
These small, brass stones commemorate the first Roma victims of the Holocaust.
Brno, Czechia
Of all the houses that grace this neighborhood, only one is a testament to surreal architecture.