An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

Along the edge of this fountain are 365 smaller fountains that represent the days of the year.

An exquisite Baroque church in Vienna's old town.

The solemn exterior conceals an opulent interior of this 17th century church.

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

Museum devoted to the artificial language of Esperanto.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

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

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.

Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.

Straight out of a nightmare, barcode-faced babies climb up and down Prague's television tower.

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

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

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

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

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

Tucked away in a Prague park, a statue beloved by romantics honors a poet so nice they buried him twice.

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

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

This walkway is so narrow it needs its own light to stop pedestrian traffic jams.

The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.