The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

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

An old asylum graveyard that's been abandoned for half a century attracts those seeking a dark thrill.

An Orwellian sculpture with eyeball cameras watches passersby.

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

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

The soulless eyes of 82 bronze children stare on forever in remembrance of a horrifying World War II massacre.

Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.

A bus with a butt and biceps to put Olympic athletes to shame.

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

This 3,800-year-old site contains markers used to study the movement of the sun and moon and create a lunar calendar.

Stone pillars and a petrified wedding party in the hills of North Macedonia.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

A field filled with carved medieval tombstones called stećak.

The elliptical citadel resisted the advance of the mighty Ottomans several times, thanks to the military prowess of the "Dragon of Albania."

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

This World War II bunker now survives as a documentation of the Nazi regime and war crimes.

A collection of decorative eggs to admire in the off-season.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.