A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

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

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

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

On a winding Vienna side street, one museum has turned their windows into a monument to history’s peace-minded heroes.

An exquisite Baroque church in Vienna's old town.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

Annual technopop celebration of peace and love.

These relics of the city's past now exist as a prominent modern feature.

In the middle of a Vienna square, Roman ruins dating back some 2,000 years are on display.

This museum is dedicated to the little known ancient Roman history of Vienna.

An ornate private entrance to the Vienna subway built specifically for the emperor.

Austria's ultra-modern art museum looks like Cthulhu's giant alien heart.

A magnificent collection of imperial armor and weaponry.

The housing complex served as an anti-fascist fortress during the Austrian Civil War.

The world's oldest known salt mine.

This series of Baroque passageways in Vienna's cultural center mix old architecture with modern art.

Vienna's diversity-themed traffic lights were inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest.

Double spiral staircases are not unheard of, but they are very rare.

Giant WWII fortresses that fired 8,000 rounds a minute, now home to thousands of pigeons.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

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