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

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

This museum promotes informed contraception by documenting its often secret past.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

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

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

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

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.

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

This walkway is so narrow it needs its own light to stop pedestrian traffic jams.

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

The last municipal pneumatic post system in the world was in operation for over 100 years, and may run again.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.

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

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

Microscopic scenes; some call it novelty, some call it art.