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A Baroque mansion with ties to legendary magicians and alchemists.

This network of conjoined cellars was riddled with traps and supposedly allowed the townspeople to pretend their homes were deserted.

Underneath the city that invented pilsners are a series of historic tunnels that have been storing beer for centuries.

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

This Czech church doubles as something of a permanent fashion exhibition for a statue of the Infant Jesus.

The rusted creatures wait to be discovered in Prague's botanical garden.

This unusually shaped mountaintop tower looks like a UFO floating over the city.

Mysterious painted skulls in Moravia.

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

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

A massive, abstract lookout tower providing a panoramic view of Prague.

Folklore says this medieval fortress was plopped atop a portal to hell to trap the demons below.

The deepest sinkhole in Central Europe comes with a grisly tale and an unusual nickname: “The Stepmother Abyss.”

Enormous sandstone towers loom within a Czech forest.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

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

A crucified and bearded female saint.

A sculpture of the iconic East German car on four legs is a tribute to those who traveled to Prague seeking asylum.

Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.

This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.