This strange statue features a bust of the famous composer plopped atop a woman's body.

Resting in the middle of an Austrian river, this sci-fi "island" lets people cross in neon style.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

An ode to a soldier who came to town, fell in love, then began making his own sparkling wine.

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

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

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

Throughout this shopping mall are medieval ruins that were discovered during the mall's construction.

This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

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

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

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

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

You have to know where to look in this rather ordinary-looking square to find hints of its past as a dissidents' cemetery.

With its vast selection of books, comics, and records, this nearly 70-year-old open-air market always rewards the patient browser.

An ancient Egyptian temple in the middle of Madrid, Spain.

Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

These 12th-century catacombs carved into a mountainside were a place of mysticism and Christian hermitages.

This 19th century cyclorama acts like an analogue time machine to a different era.