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

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

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

Spitfire airplanes with butterfly wings hover over Prague’s skyline.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

A significant example of Czech cubist architecture—a style you won't find anywhere else in the world.

The statue of a cursed knight is said to come to life every 100 years.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

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

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

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

This hanging crocodile is thought to be the "dragon" that once plagued a Czech city.

A peculiar clock commemorates a historic victory won by ringing the noonday bell an hour early.

Once part of an ancient international harbor, it's now an all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet for flamingos and other water birds.

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

Carved scenes of sex work and unglamorous labour beneath a cultural hero.

A mammoth WWII anti-air defense tower has been repurposed as a hotel with a rooftop garden.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

Hidden in plain sight on a gable between two towers on the roof of shipping firm F. Laeisz' headquarter in Hamburg sits an unexpected bronze sculpture.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

A small stone boy mischievously turns his backside toward the city’s most famous water carrier.

Elevated brass pavilions form a kaleidoscope of fragmented views of the surrounding historic cityscape.