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Launched by Napoleon's soldiers more than 200 years ago, a cannonball remains embedded in the tower wall.

This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

Poland's oldest surviving university building holds a wealth of historic science instruments including some used by Copernicus.

This Polish cave has housed a dragon, a brothel, and an enduring legend.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

The ruins of a medieval bridge are visible inside a Prague Metro station.

Complex tile installations designed by a renowned Polish artist in a Warsaw subway.

A curious art park at the geographic center of Europe is home to 3,000 television sets and other wonders.

This departure gate in Austin's airport sends travelers to over 120 imaginary destinations.

Ornate lobby of a police station is decorated with colorful murals by Augusto Giacometti.

A striking symbol of the Bulgarian capital.

A flamboyant five-story building in Bulgaria resembles a crawling snail.

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.

Seven dragon statues—including one that breathes real fire—are scattered throughout the streets of Krakow.

A statue commemorating a Polish dog who took his role as man's best friend very seriously.

Learn the fine art of making a centuries-old treat at this hands-on food museum.

Inside this Krakow church, an explosion of psychedelic color.

This sprawling concrete suburb of Kraków was designed by the Soviet Union as the model proletarian city.

In the midst of a living monument to Soviet social engineering, Polish Catholics built this church by hand.

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

This man-made mound monument was built out of soil from all across the Polish empire.