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

A crucified and bearded female saint.

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

The mystery of the Putim Ossuary involves a tricorn hat.

A former squatter's paradise outside Prague.

A steampunk-styled three-floor factory churning out art, activism, and electronic beats.

Czech architects borrow from the nest design of the stork to revitalize a farmstead, hoping to inspire the same loyalty the birds had shown.

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

An old asylum graveyard that's been abandoned for half a century attracts those seeking a dark thrill.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

A concrete plant shaped like four giant soldiers commemorates one of the most decisive battles of the Napoleonic Wars.

Before serving as James Bond's Casino Royale, this Victorian-era spa catered to the world's elite.

A larger-than-life statue of the German revolutionist stands proud in a small town where he never lived.

Be(w)ar(e) the moat around this historic Czech castle.

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

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

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.

A cheeky architectural easter egg.

The housing complex served as an anti-fascist fortress during the Austrian Civil War.

Amsterdam's Red Light District leaves little to the imagination.

Rotterdammers' dirty minds gave this santa a dirty nickname and cursed it to a life of wandering.

'The Letters of Utrecht' lays out a ribbon of poetry one letter at a time, with no final verse in sight.