Prague, Czechia
Jan Palach Memorial
Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.
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Prague, Czechia
Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.
Prague, Czechia
Tucked away in a Prague park, a statue beloved by romantics honors a poet so nice they buried him twice.
Prague, Czechia
Increasingly decayed figures stand as a powerful reminder of the human costs of Czech Communism.
Prague, Czechia
This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”
Prague, Czechia
Microscopic scenes; some call it novelty, some call it art.
Prague, Czechia
Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.
Prague, Czechia
The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.
Prague, Czechia
A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.
Prague, Czechia
A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.
Prague, Czechia
A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.
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
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
An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."
Prague, Czechia
Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.
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
Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.
Prague, Czechia
The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.
London, England
Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.
London, England
A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.
London, England
Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.
London, England
This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.
London, England
An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.
London, England
London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.