A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

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

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

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

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.

This abandoned Soviet circus is slowly being restored to its Communist-era glory.

Some of the greatest minds in the history of Hungarian art and science converged in this café.

The oldest private art gallery in all of Hungary.

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

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

A 19th century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

A plaque marks the house in Stockholm where the French philosopher René Descartes lived up until his death.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."

A mysterious ancient elephant said to possess magic powers is now the symbol of a Sicilian city.