Places jlcmaine20th Wants to Go

A small monument on the outskirts of Prague, where one of the bloodiest conflicts in the country's history was decided.

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

A plaque marks the spot where the saint was shoved off the Charles Bridge and into the river.

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 bus with a butt and biceps to put Olympic athletes to shame.

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

Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.

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

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

The risqué mixed-media sculptures are supposedly a metaphor for Czech politics.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.

Every half hour the eye-rolling clock face sticks out its tongue to mock the good citizens of Koblenz.

The bones of the Biblical Magi traveled to Constantinople and Milan before landing in their current home inside an elaborate golden reliquary in the Cologne Cathedral.

A poignant mural honors the heroic teenage non-conformists who took on the Nazis and paid the ultimate price.

The final resting place for a wealthy Roman family, this tomb might be the best preserved of its kind outside Italy.

These public toilets also provide entertainment for visitors to Amsterdam’s Red Light District.