A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

A plaque marks the spot where the saint was shoved off the Charles Bridge and into the river.

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

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

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

A small marionette collection located within the dark cellars of an 11th-century Austrian castle.

The beautiful, ornate weather station is the most popular geocache in Salzburg.

The scars of World War II are preserved on its walls.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Oddly enough, a pair of Wolfs funded the construction of this Little Red Riding Hood sculpture.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

Lucerne's central prison was converted into a tourist hotel with a bare minimum of changes.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

This metal church may or may not have been designed by Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.