Places Vyviane Wants to Go

A former top secret nuclear fallout shelter now operates like a hotel stuck in the Cold War.

A massive 1830s industrial site once known as Czechia's "Iron Heart" has been transformed into a playground of science, technology, and art.

Be(w)ar(e) the moat around this historic Czech castle.

Underneath the city that invented pilsners are a series of historic tunnels that have been storing beer for centuries.

Enormous sandstone towers loom within a Czech forest.

Mysterious painted skulls in Moravia.

Folklore says this medieval fortress was plopped atop a portal to hell to trap the demons below.

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

A crucified and bearded female saint.

This unusually shaped mountaintop tower looks like a UFO floating over the city.

An existential riddle in the world's largest ancient castle.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

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

The deepest sinkhole in Central Europe comes with a grisly tale and an unusual nickname: “The Stepmother Abyss.”

A spiral staircase twists to the top of this unusual Czech lookout tower.

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

The world's greatest slide descends 18 stories from this looping mountaintop viewing platform.

This former quarry is now a picturesque gorge that hides a sunken lake.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

Bohemian paradise covered in majestic forests.

A museum of alchemy and a basement laboratory all housed in an ancient building in a Gothic tower.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

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