A peculiar clock commemorates a historic victory won by ringing the noonday bell an hour early.

The deepest sinkhole in Central Europe comes with a grisly tale and an unusual nickname: “The Stepmother Abyss.”

A concrete plant shaped like four giant soldiers commemorates one of the most decisive battles of the Napoleonic Wars.

A folk-art cottage and hotel straight from a Slavic fairy tale.

An ornate plague column – built to celebrate life – claimed the lives of numerous artisans during its construction.

This power plant is at the edge of a Czech mountain.

This renaissance château was home to an infamous witch hunter who sent a hundred suspected witches to their deaths.

An enormous and lavish Gothic church in Czechia.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Hidden tunnels have sheltered the people of a Czech town for centuries.

Underneath the city that invented pilsners are a series of historic tunnels that have been storing beer for centuries.

These 17th-century mummies are no longer naturally preserved, but remain on display today.

A Cold War secret surveillance tower used to spy on radio communications.

Heralded as one of the prettiest castles in all of Czechia.

Be(w)ar(e) the moat around this historic Czech castle.

In the town of Třeboň, carp is king.

The castle in the romantic landscape of Podyjí houses what may be Europe's largest collection of taxidermy dogs.

The sanctuary holds what was once believed to be the saint's incorruptible tongue.

Enormous sandstone towers loom within a Czech forest.

Naturally formed rock city in Poland.

Every part of this unusual home is built into the sandstone rock.

Folklore says this medieval fortress was plopped atop a portal to hell to trap the demons below.

This unusually shaped mountaintop tower looks like a UFO floating over the city.

Tall columns of volcanic basalt make up this improbable-seeming rock formation.