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

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

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

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

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

These 18th-century paintings of Warsaw were used to reconstruct the city after World War II.

Legend says this is actually a heartbroken prince waiting for his true love's kiss.

This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.

The giant statue and its model solar system honor the native Pole who declared that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

This historic rec center in the heart of Israel is a bastion of peace and togetherness.

On holy holidays, Israel's second president used this room atop Mount Zion as a refuge to read the Torah.

After over 100 years out of service this landmark windmill once again turns as a symbol of Jerusalem's self-sufficiency.

The maze-like transportation hub contains abandoned areas, derelict stores, and a resident bat colony.

The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.

As the Dead Sea continues to deplete, massive sinkholes open along its banks.

This daunting 1st century fortress was purportedly the site of one of the most dramatic revolts of the Jewish-Roman wars.

Descend 2,030 years into the past in an ancient tunnel built to support Jerusalem's most famous wall.

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

The only quarter of the Old City not dedicated to a major world religion.

Neighborhood in Jerusalem is home to the ultra-orthodox haredim.

A modern-day cabinet of curiosities housed in a 300-year-old inn.