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

This Czech church doubles as something of a permanent fashion exhibition for a statue of the Infant Jesus.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.

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

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

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

Increasingly decayed figures stand as a powerful reminder of the human costs of Czech Communism.

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

A series of playful yellow penguins share a serious message about the environment.

A saintly relic hidden in a Prague church basement.

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

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

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.

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.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

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

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

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

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

In this brilliant blue spring in Germany, legend has it that a sad mermaid learned to finally laugh.