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 Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.

An enormous and lavish Gothic church in Czechia.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

This behemoth bovine guards an Estonian town and is a memorial to the lost species.

A Stockholm metro station is home to an escalator that is not only the longest in Sweden, but among the longest in the world.

This small museum nestled inside a souvenir shop is dedicated to Sweden's most well-known toy.

Outside a Viking museum sits a modern-day runestone made by a Swedish runemaster using traditional methods.

This grisly exhibit houses skeletons and weapons from a devastating 14th-century clash.

An ancient Viking runestone hidden in plain view in Stockholm's old town.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

Dine on food tied to Viking history and legend at this subterranean Stockholm spot.

The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

Twisted girders are all that remain of an Icelandic bridge that was wiped out by a combination of volcanic heat and glacial floods.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.