Permanent exhibit reminds visitors of the Exxon Valdez.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

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

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

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

A statue in Budapest's Liberty Square honors the former U.S. president's efforts to end the Cold War.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

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

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A plaque marks the spot where the saint was shoved off the Charles Bridge and into the river.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.