Places Sahakiel Wants to Go

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

This impressive collection of rare books on ancient mysticism inspired author Dan Brown.

A series of playful yellow penguins share a serious message about the environment.

A crucified and bearded female saint.

This charming wooden church was disassembled and moved not once but twice before settling in this Prague garden.

A saintly relic hidden in a Prague church basement.

An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

An old asylum graveyard that's been abandoned for half a century attracts those seeking a dark thrill.

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

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

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.

A steampunk-styled three-floor factory churning out art, activism, and electronic beats.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

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

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

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

A hub of information on tropical diseases and their treatments.