Melnik, Czechia
Melník Chapel of Bones
Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.
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Melnik, Czechia
Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.
Putim, Czechia
The mystery of the Putim Ossuary involves a tricorn hat.
Brno, Czechia
Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.
Prague, Czechia
Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.
Prague, Czechia
Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.
Prague, Czechia
The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.
Prague, Czechia
This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.
Ennetbürgen, Switzerland
The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.
Neuheim, Switzerland
These spooky and unusual stone formations create an underworldly landscape.
Gablenz, Germany
This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.
Schipkau, Germany
The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.
Berlin, Germany
An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."
Vác, Hungary
Hungarian mummies in beautiful painted coffins.
Caraș-Severin, Romania
Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.
Kazanlak, Bulgaria
Said to be the only museum in the world dedicated to the most classic of all blooms, the rose.
Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
The temple that withstood the Nazis.
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
This ancient theater, restored in the 20th century, lives on as a venue for dramatic and musical performances.
Kaspichan, Bulgaria
Rock carving created 1,300 years ago 75 feet off the ground.
Sofia, Bulgaria
A striking symbol of the Bulgarian capital.
Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
An homage to the medieval rulers of Bulgaria.
Sofia, Bulgaria
"Unity, Creativity, Beauty."
Sofia, Bulgaria
Eastern Bloc nostalgia, anybody?
Sofia, Bulgaria
"Holy Wisdom" overlooks the city that became its namesake.
Perushtitza, Bulgaria
Ruins of an early Roman Christian church dating back to the 4th to 5th centuries.