Prague, Czechia
Strahov Monastery
Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.
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Prague, Czechia
Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.
Prague, Czechia
Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.
Prague, Czechia
Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.
Prague, Czechia
The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.
Prague, Czechia
This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.
Prague, Czechia
A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.
Prague, Czechia
An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."
Prague, Czechia
This walkway is so narrow it needs its own light to stop pedestrian traffic jams.
Prague, Czechia
This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.
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
Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.
Prague, Czechia
What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.
Yekaterinburg, Russia
Church built on the site where the last tsar of Russia and his family were killed.
Yekaterinburg, Russia
Russia's giant concrete QWERTY keyboard is likely the largest in the world.
Yekaterinburg, Russia
Mostly underground in the old days Back in the USSR, today the Beatles beckon to tourists from a wall sculpture out in the open in central Russia.
Russia
Monastery complex at the location where bodies of the executed Romanov royal family were discovered.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
An art museum inside an active factory.
Kyoto, Japan
The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.
Kyoto, Japan
A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese shrine.
Kyoto, Japan
The 10,000 Torii shrine.
Kyoto, Japan
This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.
Kyoto, Japan
Crawl through the hole in the middle of this stone to break off a bad relationship or initiate a good one.
Nikko, Japan
This western-themed amusement park is host to a large number of decaying animatronic cowboys.
Kamakura, Japan
Narrow passes cut out of mountains surround the medieval capital of Japan.