A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

Nine bronze hands protruding from a wall honor the student uprising that led to the fall of Czechoslovakia's Communist government.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

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

Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.

An enormous and lavish Gothic church in Czechia.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

This behemoth bovine guards an Estonian town and is a memorial to the lost species.

A Stockholm metro station is home to an escalator that is not only the longest in Sweden, but among the longest in the world.

This small museum nestled inside a souvenir shop is dedicated to Sweden's most well-known toy.

Outside a Viking museum sits a modern-day runestone made by a Swedish runemaster using traditional methods.

This grisly exhibit houses skeletons and weapons from a devastating 14th-century clash.