Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.

In the town of Třeboň, carp is king.

An army of sleeping knights sculpted by a self-taught local artist beautifully depict an old Czech legend.

Czech architects borrow from the nest design of the stork to revitalize a farmstead, hoping to inspire the same loyalty the birds had shown.

Before building her own tombstone, an untrained artist created a concrete menagerie in her garden.

Abandoned substation turned village treasure.

A larger-than-life statue of the German revolutionist stands proud in a small town where he never lived.

This quaint museum tells about more than just the birth of Jesus: "betlémy" are an important piece of Czech history.

This Gothic church was wheeled in its entirety to a new location a half a mile away.

A Cold War secret surveillance tower used to spy on radio communications.

A mesmerizing landscape of 18th-century cellars carved out of the land.

600 stumps, branches, and trunks of different shapes and sizes.

This renaissance château was home to an infamous witch hunter who sent a hundred suspected witches to their deaths.

The sanctuary holds what was once believed to be the saint's incorruptible tongue.

A peculiar clock commemorates a historic victory won by ringing the noonday bell an hour early.

An enormous and lavish Gothic church in Czechia.

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

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

Every part of this unusual home is built into the sandstone rock.

The largest manmade caves in Europe now function as a motorbike club's headquarters.

What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

This charming wooden church was disassembled and moved not once but twice before settling in this Prague garden.