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Giant reed houses made in the marshes of Southern Iraq.

Celebrated as a center of civilization, the remains of the ancient city have been nearly destroyed by greed, egoism, and war.

Human figures and faces are carved into the sandstone surrounding this cave in Czechia.

A historic and beautiful Art Nouveau chamber in a historic railway station.

A concrete plant shaped like four giant soldiers commemorates one of the most decisive battles of the Napoleonic Wars.

This fortress was designed to prevent a Nazi invasion but was never used.

Towering sandstone rock formations where 'The Chronicles of Narnia' was filmed.

600 stumps, branches, and trunks of different shapes and sizes.

A folk-art cottage and hotel straight from a Slavic fairy tale.

Before building her own tombstone, an untrained artist created a concrete menagerie in her garden.

Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha spent 18 years creating these monumental paintings of Slavic history and mythology.

Visitors flock to the historic birthplace of radiobalneology for its therapeutic radium treatments.

This renaissance château was home to an infamous witch hunter who sent a hundred suspected witches to their deaths.

Heralded as one of the prettiest castles in all of Czechia.

This ruined castle perched atop a rocky peak is a great place for a hike.

Of all the houses that grace this neighborhood, only one is a testament to surreal architecture.

Every part of this unusual home is built into the sandstone rock.

An army of sleeping knights sculpted by a self-taught local artist beautifully depict an old Czech legend.

Unique house covered in a nightmarish mural of demons, ghosts and monsters.

The largest manmade caves in Europe now function as a motorbike club's headquarters.

An enormous and lavish Gothic church in Czechia.

One of the oldest, well-preserved water treatment facilities in all of Europe.

A half-buried vehicle in Prague's is the latest iteration in a long-running piece by Czech artist David Černý.

A massive 1830s industrial site once known as Czechia's "Iron Heart" has been transformed into a playground of science, technology, and art.