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

Microscopic scenes; some call it novelty, some call it art.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

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

An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."

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

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

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.”

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

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

An ornate sculpture of an ox in repose marks the former entrance to Nuremberg's medieval meat market, which was destroyed during World War II.

Nestled on the banks of a river in Nuremberg is a small museum that was once home of the city's official executioner.

This historic toy museum brings a little whimsy to a city not usually remembered for such things.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

The “Coin Cabinet of Dresden” houses a collection of over 300,000 numismatic artifacts, one of the largest of its kind in Europe.

Over 12,000 hygiene oriented objects and exhibits.

An exquisite panometer representing Dresden as it was from 1695 to 1760.

Tourists often confuse this beautifully ornate former cigarette factory for a mosque.

An engineering wonder at Pillnitz Castle protects a precious 230-year-old flowering shrub.

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.