Prague, Czechia
Strahov Monastery
Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.
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Prague, Czechia
Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.
Prague, Czechia
The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.
Prague, Czechia
Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.
Prague, Czechia
Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.
Prague, Czechia
A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.
Prague, Czechia
What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.
Prague, Czechia
The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.
Prague, Czechia
Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.
Prague, Czechia
A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.
Prague, Czechia
A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.
Munich, Germany
One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.
Munich, Germany
A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.
Munich, Germany
This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.
Chiang Rai, Thailand
A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.
Turda, Romania
This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.
Salem, Massachusetts
The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.
Bronx, New York
The loneliest island in New York.
Stockholm, Sweden
A man has revenged his true love's betrayal through tears and stone genitalia.
Gerlach, Nevada
A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.
Sparta, Wisconsin
These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.
Bronx, New York
Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.
Crawfordsville, Indiana
The first spinning jail built in the United States is the only one that still turns.
St. Johnsbury, Vermont
A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.
New Mexico
One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.