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

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.

A significant example of Czech cubist architecture—a style you won't find anywhere else in the world.

Throughout this shopping mall are medieval ruins that were discovered during the mall's construction.

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

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

Dedicated to the man who saved hundreds of children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.

A quasi-futuristic roof sits atop a medieval Bohemian monastery damaged during World War II.

A Baroque mansion with ties to legendary magicians and alchemists.

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

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

Riga’s historic porcelain industry is preserved in this small, hidden museum.

Nine bronze hands protruding from a wall honor the student uprising that led to the fall of Czechoslovakia's Communist government.

A group of committed locals restored this centuries-old windmill to its original condition.

The European Union’s tallest freestanding structure provides radio and television broadcasting to half of Latvia.

A subtle memorial marks where a human chain protested Soviet control in 1989.

These barriers stand as stark reminders of Northern Ireland's troubled past.

A palatial former bank building now houses what may be the poshest art venue (and former Tesco) in Belfast.

The only monument to name all of the passengers and crew who died on the RMS Titanic.

The statue honors a beloved bird that once roamed St. George's Market.