Prague, Czechia
Velvet Revolution Monument
Nine bronze hands protruding from a wall honor the student uprising that led to the fall of Czechoslovakia's Communist government.
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Prague, Czechia
Nine bronze hands protruding from a wall honor the student uprising that led to the fall of Czechoslovakia's Communist government.
Prague, Czechia
Dedicated to the man who saved hundreds of children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.
Prague, Czechia
The largest and best-preserved rotunda in Prague.
Prague, Czechia
A bus with a butt and biceps to put Olympic athletes to shame.
Prague, Czechia
Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.
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
Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.
Prague, Czechia
A plaque marks the spot where the saint was shoved off the Charles Bridge and into the river.
Prague, Czechia
A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.
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
The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.
Prague, Czechia
The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.
Prague, Czechia
What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.
Prague, Czechia
This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”
Prague, Czechia
The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.
Prague, Czechia
Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.
Prague, Czechia
A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.
Tissington, England
The tradition of using flowers to decorate wells is once again thriving in England.
Henshaw, England
Also known as “Robin Hood’s tree,” it became a famed location along Hadrian's Wall before it was cut down.
John o' Groats, Scotland
The sign marks one of the endpoints to mainland Britain's longest overland travel route.
Highland, Scotland
A double cantilever system bridge that was designed to prevent flood damage.
Wick, Scotland
The world's shortest street was created by an awkwardly placed hotel.
Alexandria, Scotland
A local tree surgeon has created a whimsical walk full of carved tree stumps near Scotland's Loch Lomond.
Alexandria, Scotland
Largest lake in Great Britain measured by surface area.