Opulence and fantasy collide in this royal chair which is supposedly made with unicorn horns.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Once a meeting point for great thinkers, and the midpoint of the country.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

This pair of gilded girls atop an Art Deco building in Copenhagen were built to function as a weather indicator.

The gilded, masterful astronomical clock will calculate time, dates, and planetary positions for thousands of years to come.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

An eerie reminder to the horrors of World War II.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

This statue of the "shiny uncle of Beppu" was erected in 2007.

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

This hanging crocodile is thought to be the "dragon" that once plagued a Czech city.

A peculiar clock commemorates a historic victory won by ringing the noonday bell an hour early.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

A massive 1830s industrial site once known as Czechia's "Iron Heart" has been transformed into a playground of science, technology, and art.

An ornate plague column – built to celebrate life – claimed the lives of numerous artisans during its construction.

Tiny communists hammer away on the Olomouc Astronomical Clock.

This network of conjoined cellars was riddled with traps and supposedly allowed the townspeople to pretend their homes were deserted.

Be(w)ar(e) the moat around this historic Czech castle.

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

Bohemian paradise covered in majestic forests.

South Korea's only sex-themed park.