A former squatter's paradise outside Prague.

A sculpture of the iconic East German car on four legs is a tribute to those who traveled to Prague seeking asylum.

A bus with a butt and biceps to put Olympic athletes to shame.

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

What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.

Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.

The risqué mixed-media sculptures are supposedly a metaphor for Czech politics.

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

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

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

An unusual sand beach in the middle of a forest.

The eclectic observatory castle of a 19th-century astronomer and explorer.

To the famous surrealist artist, liberty required two torches held high.

The opulent home that inspired Tintin's Marlinspike Hall and the adventures within.

An enchanting work of outsider art, full of whimsical sculptures and carvings.

Nicknamed the "Museum of Horrors," this French anatomical collection has been fascinating visitors for over a century.

The sunken structure looks like the victim of a catastrophic flood.

This crumbling, graffiti-covered mansion sits tantalizingly within reach of the proletariat who frequent a public park.

The deserted pirate-themed restaurant still entices explorers.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."

This collection of French root art looks like an indoor fairy wonderland.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.