A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.

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

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

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

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

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

A former top secret nuclear fallout shelter now operates like a hotel stuck in the Cold War.

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

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.