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This innovative steam machine was no doubt the most famous of the pioneer locomotives.

This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.

Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

The oldest garden in Prague, once part of an medieval orchard.

Increasingly decayed figures stand as a powerful reminder of the human costs of Czech Communism.

This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.

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

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

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

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

This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.

A famous songsmith's custom piano, dubbed "High Society," is hidden just out of sight in one of New York's finest hotels.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.