One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.

This famous writer's tombstone is a literary pilgrimage site that was publicly defiled by a rival.

This colorful but controversial ceiling has been likened to a 21st-century Sistine Chapel.

Walk through a restaurant's refrigerator door to reach this hidden bar.

Large Hadron Collider and the Birthplace of World Wide Web.

Crammed inside this grounded passenger plane is a bar that was once a Communist hang out and is now a ratty relic.

Once home to artillery, this garden offers more peace today than it did during its war-torn past.

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

This bar and museum are devoted to the controversial comic book work of Kája Saudek.

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

Nine bronze hands protruding from a wall honor the student uprising that led to the fall of Czechoslovakia's Communist government.

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

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

The oldest garden in Prague, once part of an medieval orchard.

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

A crucified and bearded female saint.

A sculpture of the iconic East German car on four legs is a tribute to those who traveled to Prague seeking asylum.

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

Microscopic scenes; some call it novelty, some call it art.

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

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

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

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

The tunnel's elegant proportions keep you snug with no claustrophobia freak-out.