A peculiar clock commemorates a historic victory won by ringing the noonday bell an hour early.

Tiny communists hammer away on the Olomouc Astronomical Clock.

This almost a century old piece of architecture had been overlooked by most, except for the drunk and the homeless

A cheeky reminder about the value of art dangles above one of Olomouc's busiest streets.

The world's greatest slide descends 18 stories from this looping mountaintop viewing platform.

Enormous sandstone towers loom within a Czech forest.

An unusual bronze bus shelter is actually an art installation commenting on the city's history with the Nazi party.

Bohemian paradise covered in majestic forests.

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

Abandoned substation turned village treasure.

The largest manmade caves in Europe now function as a motorbike club's headquarters.

This village in Bohemian Switzerland hosts more than 300 wood carvings inspired by fairytales, folklore, and other oddities, as well as a series of Communist-era tanks

Tall columns of volcanic basalt make up this improbable-seeming rock formation.

When the river dries up, these stones start talking.

This spherical sculpture has also been dubbed "the steel orange" due to its likeness to a massive, sliced piece of citrus.

The soulless eyes of 82 bronze children stare on forever in remembrance of a horrifying World War II massacre.

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

A Cold War secret surveillance tower used to spy on radio communications.

A popular legend claims that the famous pizza was invented at a restaurant in this alley.

A letterbox installed specifically for the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.

A piece of crumbling highway infrastructure was repurposed as a high-tech facility for testing racecars.

Few remain of these distinctive old trees that once served as natural landmarks for travelers on the road.

The world's largest underground iron ore mine.

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.