Places scheung Wants to Go

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

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

A sculpture of the iconic East German car on four legs is a tribute to those who traveled to Prague seeking asylum.

A bus with a butt and biceps to put Olympic athletes to shame.

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

An existential riddle in the world's largest ancient castle.

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

An Orwellian sculpture with eyeball cameras watches passersby.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

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

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

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

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

The site of one of the largest prison escapes of World War II.

A tree planted by Marie Curie is treasured by the Radium institute that she set up.

A 90-ton, gravity-defiant steam locomotive shoots for the skies in this bizarrely beautiful public artwork.

A World War II torpedo launch station abandoned off the Polish coast.

A collection of old neon signs from all over Poland line a secluded courtyard.

A haunting deserted hotel is a favorite with artists and photographers.

This hidden collection of everyday objects illustrates life within communist Poland.

This sprawling concrete suburb of Kraków was designed by the Soviet Union as the model proletarian city.

A national collection of Communist-era musical posters.