Prague, Czechia
Museum of Communism
This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.
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Prague, Czechia
This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.
Prague, Czechia
A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.
Prague, Czechia
Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.
Prague, Czechia
The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.
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One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.
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A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.
Prague, Czechia
A crucified and bearded female saint.
Prague, Czechia
Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.
Prague, Czechia
This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”
Prague, Czechia
Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.
Prague, Czechia
The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.
Prague, Czechia
The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.
Prague, Czechia
Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.
Prague, Czechia
A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.
Prague, Czechia
A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.
Prague, Czechia
Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.
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Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.
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Duluth mineral magnates built this charming art deco lodge to be their private clubhouse.
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This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.
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This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.
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These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.