This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

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

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

A controversial artwork draws attention to the dark history of Prague's "Suicide Bridge."

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

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

This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

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

A series of playful yellow penguins share a serious message about the environment.

This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

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

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

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

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

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

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

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

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.