Liberec, Czechia
Hotel Ještěd
This unusually shaped mountaintop tower looks like a UFO floating over the city.
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Liberec, Czechia
This unusually shaped mountaintop tower looks like a UFO floating over the city.
Prague, Czechia
The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.
Krásno, Czechia
A spiral staircase twists to the top of this unusual Czech lookout tower.
Manětín, Czechia
Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.
Prague, Czechia
A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.
Prague, Czechia
The risqué mixed-media sculptures are supposedly a metaphor for Czech politics.
Szałe, Poland
Disturbing works of outsider art, carved from whole logs.
Tatra County, Poland
The majority of the highest mountain in Poland is actually located in a different country.
Karpacz, Poland
On this Polish road, an optical illusion makes cars seem to roll uphill.
Katowice, Poland
While the U.S. and Soviet Union were engaged in a space race, Poland built a UFO on the ground.
Poznań, Poland
An abandoned football stadium with a tragic past.
Bydgoszcz, Poland
Come to this Polish museum to take a good, clean look at filth.
Krakow, Poland
This grubby wall is said to be one of the Earth's esoteric energy centers.
Gmina Leśnica, Poland
One of the largest amphitheaters in Europe is a former Nazi German gathering place that still stands today.
Wrocław, Poland
This oddly beautiful water cistern is a techno-temple to the wet stuff and a multimedia masterpiece.
Karpacz, Poland
This fairytale medieval church in Poland originally spent centuries in Norway.
Krakow, Poland
At first glance, this area seems like just another city park, but the lush landscape hides a dark past.
Poznań, Poland
The traditional Polish croissant, folded 81 times into the shape of a horseshoe, is a legally protected cultural treat.
Rapa, Poland
A peculiar family mausoleum built by a German nobleman captivated by the occult.
Krakow, Poland
The unsettling remnants of a torn down movie set lies nearby the ruined location of the actual Płaszów Labor Camp.
Zalipie, Poland
This uber-quaint Polish village is known for its habit of painting elaborate floral motifs on just about everything.
Zwentendorf, Austria
Austria's very first and only nuclear power station was completed but never used.
Tarsdorf, Austria
English-speaking soldiers discovered Europe's best one-liner at the end of World War II, before the town’s name changed.
Hallstatt, Austria
The world's oldest known salt mine.