Places Edited by mordekia

Straight out of a nightmare, barcode-faced babies climb up and down Prague's television tower.

The reconstruction of this prominent building fulfilled a long-written command.

This simple frog painting created by musician Daniel Johnston embodies the spirit of Austin.

This enormous abstract sculpture is part jungle gym, part elaborate noise-making machine.

Extremely famous in his native country, this Cracovian painter is all but unknown beyond Polish borders.

This massive monument was unveiled the day Kosovo declared independence from Serbia.

In the summer, the area around this sculpture transforms into a vibrant concert venue.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

Nine centuries-old fortresses guard the walls of this medieval Romanian city.

Witnesses claim the Virgin Mary statue outside the church once mysteriously shed a single tear.

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.

This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

This rare example of Vancouver's Victorian past was the home of one of the city's first bookbinders.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

One of the most controversial statues in Romania is an emperor with no clothes.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

A collection of art from Bulgaria's time as a communist state.

A collection of items from a way of life that no longer exists.

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

Sofia's legislative center is continuously reinventing itself.

"Holy Wisdom" overlooks the city that became its namesake.