This fortress was designed to prevent a Nazi invasion but was never used.

A concrete plant shaped like four giant soldiers commemorates one of the most decisive battles of the Napoleonic Wars.

Created as a "model concentration camp" to hide Nazi atrocities from the international community, this former camp-ghetto now holds a museum and memorial honoring the lives lost within.

Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha spent 18 years creating these monumental paintings of Slavic history and mythology.

This Czech military museum is home to pink tank that was once a symbol of art and political rebellion.

An ornate plague column – built to celebrate life – claimed the lives of numerous artisans during its construction.

The 14th-century ruins are said to contain healing powers.

Nine bronze hands protruding from a wall honor the student uprising that led to the fall of Czechoslovakia's Communist government.

This network of conjoined cellars was riddled with traps and supposedly allowed the townspeople to pretend their homes were deserted.

Underneath the city that invented pilsners are a series of historic tunnels that have been storing beer for centuries.

These 17th-century mummies are no longer naturally preserved, but remain on display today.

Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

The last municipal pneumatic post system in the world was in operation for over 100 years, and may run again.

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

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.

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

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

The memorial stands at the intersection of the rivers Morava and Danube.

After 11 years of reconstruction work, Slovakia's finest hilltop chapel complex is finally reopen to the public.