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

This fortress was designed to prevent a Nazi invasion but was never used.

Tiny communists hammer away on the Olomouc Astronomical Clock.

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

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

The 14th-century ruins are said to contain healing powers.

Be(w)ar(e) the moat around this historic Czech castle.

A massive 1830s industrial site once known as Czechia's "Iron Heart" has been transformed into a playground of science, technology, and art.

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

Enormous sandstone towers loom within a Czech forest.

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

Bohemian paradise covered in majestic forests.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

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

An exquisite monument dedicated to fallen Partisan soldiers and anti-fascist fighters of Yugoslavia through symbols of gears and flowers.

This exclusive resort has completely covered a tiny Balkan island in a 5-star warren of guest rooms.

A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

This roadside shrine to an unofficial saint has welcomed the wishes and prayers of local believers for generations.

Before this bridge was built people had to wait for the ferryman, an annoyance that, the story has it, gave the town its name.

Live-in sculpture begun by one family in 1979.

The smallest port in France is named after the pirate who created it.

A monument to the thousands of Canadian soldiers who died capturing the French ridge during World War I.