Budapest, Hungary
Memento Park
Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.
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Budapest, Hungary
Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.
Brno, Czechia
This hanging crocodile is thought to be the "dragon" that once plagued a Czech city.
Brno, Czechia
A peculiar clock commemorates a historic victory won by ringing the noonday bell an hour early.
Prague, Czechia
This Czech church doubles as something of a permanent fashion exhibition for a statue of the Infant Jesus.
Brno, Czechia
A former top secret nuclear fallout shelter now operates like a hotel stuck in the Cold War.
Brno, Czechia
A cheeky architectural easter egg.
Prague, Czechia
This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.
Prague, Czechia
A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.
Brno, Czechia
Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.
Prague, Czechia
One man's personal collection of KGB memorabilia is presented along with his strange viewpoint.
Brno, Czechia
Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.
Prague, Czechia
This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.
Prague, Czechia
This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”
Prague, Czechia
Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.
Prague, Czechia
Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Batumi, Georgia
A shipwreck named Desire at the shore of Batumi.
Batumi, Georgia
Tower with a double-helix spiral, adorned with letters of the Georgian alphabet.
Tbilisi, Georgia
A small but hugely whimsical theater where marionettes play out the "The Battle of Stalingrad."
Tbilisi, Georgia
Luxury hotel turned into a refugee camp, then turned back into a luxury hotel.
Tbilisi, Georgia
A cluster of historic bathhouses built on the famed hot springs that gave the Georgian capital its name.
Batumi, Georgia
Fast food feels like fine dining at this award-winning modern Georgian building.
Tbilisi, Georgia
You'll find just about anything in this funky Tbilisi flea market.
Batumi, Georgia
A literally moving statue of stacked metal giants just continually trying (and failing) to find love.