Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.

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

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

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

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

Thousands of slain Soviet soldiers are buried within the shadow of this enormous obelisk.

This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

Vienna's underworld of tunnels and subterranean rivers made an iconic appearance in a 1949 Orson Welles film.

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

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

See the rare bloom of the "Queen of the Night" cactus at one of the world's largest succulent collections.

This colossal couch is an unlikely monument to Europe's first female Doctor of Law.

One of a series of no-purpose kinetic artworks by Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely.

Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.

One hundred years ago this small house in downtown Zürich became the birthplace of the Dada movement.