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.

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

A plaque marks the spot where the saint was shoved off the Charles Bridge and into the river.

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

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

This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.

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

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.

After protestors toppled a statue of a 17th-century slave trader, the pedestal where it once stood remains unoccupied.

An authentic, seaworthy replica of the ship that sailed to Newfoundland in 1497.

The unusual clock on this 18th-century market building has an extra minute hand for "Bristol time."

It houses a menagerie of wondrous taxidermy specimens from around the world, including the remains of a famous gorilla.

The abandoned funicular tunnel was a secret base for the BBC during World War II.

Something's missing between the arcades of the Palazzo della Ragione in "the city of the three withouts."

This old medieval prison tower has been a site of astronomical research for more than 250 years.

The oldest botanical garden in the world that technically isn't the oldest.

One of the earliest depictions of an Arthurian scene that is shrouded in mystery.

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

These relics of the city's past now exist as a prominent modern feature.

In the middle of a Vienna square, Roman ruins dating back some 2,000 years are on display.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.