A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

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

An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."

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

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

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

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

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

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

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

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.