A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Spitfire airplanes with butterfly wings hover over Prague’s skyline.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

Nine bronze hands protruding from a wall honor the student uprising that led to the fall of Czechoslovakia's Communist government.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

The statue of a cursed knight is said to come to life every 100 years.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

A significant example of Czech cubist architecture—a style you won't find anywhere else in the world.

A plaque marks the spot where the saint was shoved off the Charles Bridge and into the river.

A half-buried vehicle in Prague's is the latest iteration in a long-running piece by Czech artist David Černý.

Local folklore claims that this wall was not built for defense, but to provide labor during a time of famine.

Increasingly decayed figures stand as a powerful reminder of the human costs of Czech Communism.

Tucked away in a Prague park, a statue beloved by romantics honors a poet so nice they buried him twice.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

Dedicated to the man who saved hundreds of children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.

A historic and beautiful Art Nouveau chamber in a historic railway station.

A fragment of one of history’s most famous walls stands as a reminder of unity in a culturally divided city.

A 20-foot statue reminds viewers of an extinct species.

The (fictional) address of Sweeney Todd's bloody barbershop.

This is London's smallest listed building.