A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.

This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.

Now harmless, this looming post struck fear into the heart of medieval troublemakers.

A musical instrument played by the sea.

The Mighty Wurlitzer organ continues to belt out the tunes at downtown El Segundo's historic home for silent and classic movies.

In Houston's airport, a cow is properly equipped to jump over the moon.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

This unassuming tree stump reportedly traces its roots to the famous pharaoh queen's reign.

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

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

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

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

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A trio of red, white, and blue stones embedded in the streets of Leiden are markers of medieval territory and law.

On a winding Vienna side street, one museum has turned their windows into a monument to history’s peace-minded heroes.

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

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.