Tucked away in a Prague park, a statue beloved by romantics honors a poet so nice they buried him twice.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

This walkway is so narrow it needs its own light to stop pedestrian traffic jams.

A plaque marks the spot where the saint was shoved off the Charles Bridge and into the river.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

Dedicated to the man who saved hundreds of children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.

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

One of the oldest, well-preserved water treatment facilities in all of Europe.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

The European towns of Brașov and Râșnov each have proud signs reminiscent of the Hollywood sign.

A fire once nearly devoured this gorgeous 14th-century Gothic cathedral.

An old spa town in the mountains of Romania where, according to legend, the great hero Hercules once bathed.

Backwards hour and minute hands and a timing mechanism that fluctuates with the temperature led to this clock tower's local nickname.

A monument to Lenin has been transformed into a statue of everyone's favorite black-helmeted, fool-choking Sith Lord.

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

Once the tallest building in Chisinau, this unique tower is a relic of Soviet architecture.

At less than four inches in height, this iconic fictional character is the smallest public statue in all of Moldova.

A statue dedicated to the founders of communism.

This abandoned Soviet circus is slowly being restored to its Communist-era glory.

This 13th century Orthodox monastery is built right into the Moldovan cliffside.

Seventy-five miles of limestone caves host more than a million bottles of wine beneath a sleepy Moldovan town.