This study room in the New York Public Library saw the creation of one of contemporary America's greatest traitors.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

While you wait to cross the street at a traffic light in Mainz, you might notice that the light is staring back at you.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

This historic funicular system combines the old with the new while offering delightful views over the surrounding valley.

A grumpy old water goblin guarding an old mill on the Devil’s Stream in Prague.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

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

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

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

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

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

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Art historians have debated the identity of this medieval stone rider since the 19th century.

An all-female order shares an ancient culinary art with visitors at their mountaintop monastery.

This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

Scattered monuments in the middle of the Sahara dedicated to the late Egyptian actor and desert explorer.

A cursed torii gate still stands on the edge of Haneda Airport, decades after its shrine's relocation.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.