Topola, Serbia
St. George's Church
The interior of this Serbian royal family's mausoleum is covered with exquisite mosaics.
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Topola, Serbia
The interior of this Serbian royal family's mausoleum is covered with exquisite mosaics.
Niš, Serbia
Structure built from the skulls of vanquished foes.
Rome, Italy
This is the oldest Roman-made bridge in the city still existing in its original state.
Rome, Italy
Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.
Rome, Italy
The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."
Brno, Czechia
This strange statue depicts a young boy's body with an adult Mozart's head and a single wing.
Brno, Czechia
This hanging crocodile is thought to be the "dragon" that once plagued a Czech city.
Brno, Czechia
A peculiar clock commemorates a historic victory won by ringing the noonday bell an hour early.
Brno, Czechia
A cheeky architectural easter egg.
Brno, Czechia
Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.
Český Krumlov, Czechia
Be(w)ar(e) the moat around this historic Czech castle.
Doubice, Czechia
This village in Bohemian Switzerland hosts more than 300 wood carvings inspired by fairytales, folklore, and other oddities, as well as a series of Communist-era tanks
Most, Czechia
This Gothic church was wheeled in its entirety to a new location a half a mile away.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
An enormous and lavish Gothic church in Czechia.
Blatce, Czechia
Folklore says this medieval fortress was plopped atop a portal to hell to trap the demons below.
Lidice, Czechia
The soulless eyes of 82 bronze children stare on forever in remembrance of a horrifying World War II massacre.
Prague, Czechia
An old asylum graveyard that's been abandoned for half a century attracts those seeking a dark thrill.
Prague, Czechia
Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.
Prague, Czechia
A former squatter's paradise outside Prague.
Prague, Czechia
This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.
Prague, Czechia
Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.
Prague, Czechia
This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”
Prague, Czechia
Tucked away in a Prague park, a statue beloved by romantics honors a poet so nice they buried him twice.
Prague, Czechia
Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.