A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

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.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

The last municipal pneumatic post system in the world was in operation for over 100 years, and may run again.

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

A saintly relic hidden in a Prague church basement.

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

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

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

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

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

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

Physicist’s epitaph provides final confirmation to a career of turmoil.

This series of Baroque passageways in Vienna's cultural center mix old architecture with modern art.

An exquisite Baroque church in Vienna's old town.

A neo-Gothic church built to thank God for saving the Emperor of Austria from an assassination.

The solemn exterior conceals an opulent interior of this 17th century church.

Giant WWII fortresses that fired 8,000 rounds a minute, now home to thousands of pigeons.

The townhouse where the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory started her murderous career.