Architectural Oddities in Czechia

Instead of sermons, this church became home to millions of books.

A significant example of Czech cubist architecture—a style you won't find anywhere else in the world.

What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.

This charming wooden church was disassembled and moved not once but twice before settling in this Prague garden.

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

The 14th-century ruins are said to contain healing powers.

A concrete plant shaped like four giant soldiers commemorates one of the most decisive battles of the Napoleonic Wars.

This Gothic church was wheeled in its entirety to a new location a half a mile away.

A cheeky architectural easter egg.

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

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

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

Czech architects borrow from the nest design of the stork to revitalize a farmstead, hoping to inspire the same loyalty the birds had shown.

Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.

Bohemian paradise covered in majestic forests.

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