Galway, Ireland
Fiddaun Castle
A remarkably intact castle that once was the largest in Ireland.
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Galway, Ireland
A remarkably intact castle that once was the largest in Ireland.
Dublin, Ireland
The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.
Dublin, Ireland
Experience what life was like in Ireland during the Viking and medieval ages.
Athlone, Ireland
The oldest pub in Ireland may also be the oldest surviving bar in the entire world.
Dublin, Ireland
A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.
Prague, Czechia
A Baroque mansion with ties to legendary magicians and alchemists.
Prague, Czechia
Nine bronze hands protruding from a wall honor the student uprising that led to the fall of Czechoslovakia's Communist government.
Prague, Czechia
A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.
Prague, Czechia
The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.
Prague, Czechia
A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.
Prague, Czechia
Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.
Prague, Czechia
This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.
Prague, Czechia
A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.
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 hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.
Prague, Czechia
A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.
Prague, Czechia
The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.
Pilsen, Czechia
Underneath the city that invented pilsners are a series of historic tunnels that have been storing beer for centuries.
Liberec, Czechia
This unusually shaped mountaintop tower looks like a UFO floating over the city.
Prague, Czechia
Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.
Wrocław, Poland
A 90-ton, gravity-defiant steam locomotive shoots for the skies in this bizarrely beautiful public artwork.
Wrocław, Poland
The silly symbol for an underground protest group is now scattered around the city.
Prague, Czechia
The largest and best-preserved rotunda in Prague.
Prague, Czechia
A historic and beautiful Art Nouveau chamber in a historic railway station.