Muammar Gaddafi's well-intentioned investment in his favorite city turned out to be a nightmare.

Ancient Manuscripts showcase the civilization of West Africans during the Middle Ages.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."

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

A saintly relic hidden in a Prague church basement.

An old asylum graveyard that's been abandoned for half a century attracts those seeking a dark thrill.

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

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

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

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A statue in Budapest's Liberty Square honors the former U.S. president's efforts to end the Cold War.

This statue of a falling man commemorates a teenage martyr of the Hungarian Revolution.

Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

Tucked away near more famous landmarks lies a statue meant to symbolize the confluence and continuing development of human culture.

Possibly the world's largest hourglass only needs to be reset every New Year's Eve.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.