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

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

Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

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

This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.

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

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

An enormous and lavish Gothic church in Czechia.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

A steampunk-styled three-floor factory churning out art, activism, and electronic beats.

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

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

The bizarre headgear looks like it was made for a fool, not a king.

Explore Hull's historic Old Town by following the sea creatures scattered throughout its charmingly cobbled streets.

A long, winding trek rewards you with a gorge so captivating it inspired a painting in the Tate.

An enormous steel waterfall is a nod to the substance that shaped Britain's Steel City.

England's largest white horse isn't even white.

This mummified mermaid corpse is an aquatic curio that was eventually revealed to be a fake.

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

Late at night, the bust of the "Dracula" actor was snuck onto the facade of this Budapest castle.

Sitting beneath an unremarkable residential building is a museum devoted to classic Pinball.