Czech Republic
Looking at the Ancient Catholic Practice of Turning Human Bones into Art and Furniture
Sedlec Ossuary, a Roman Catholic chapel in the Czech Republic, purports to have one of every type of human bone in its collection of skeletons. In many cases, these bones were refashioned into art pieces or furniture pieces like chandeliers. We talked...
The VICE Guide to Prague 2014
The Czech capital is beautiful, steeped in history, gay-friendly, and relaxed about drugs. It's basically the perfect city, or at least it would be if it hadn't been discovered and overrun by packs of bros and bachelorette parties.
How Do You Dismantle a Building Made of Human Remains?
Kutná Hora used to be rich, famous, and important in its own right back in the Middle Ages. Today, it’s been reduced to a mere day trip for fans of faded grandeur and very old human remains.
Painter Jeremiah Palecek Talks Net Surrealism In The Czech Republic
The nerdkore artist discusses new media in Prague, projection mapping, and Angela Merkel fever dreams.
Mclean Stephenson Photographed Eastern Europe And Got Punched By An Angry Wizard
If you haven't heard of Mclean Stephenson, or seen his photos, it's about time you did.
Heroin Holiday
Every August, while Europe's desk jockeys shut off their phones and head to the beach, the junkies of Prague set up camp in the poppy fields outside the city for a vacation of their own. For one glorious month, there are no cops to run from, no dealers...
The New Roma Ghettos
In the last two years, as the Eurozone crisis worsens, Slovakia seems to be scapegoating its precarious minority of Roma—the ethnic group better known as Gypsies. Racist violence, evictions, threats, and more subtle forms of discrimination and...
Artist David Cerney's Giant Purple "Screw You" to the Czech President
When a 30 foot purple hand appeared earlier this week in the middle of Prague’s Vltava River giving the finger to the Prague Castle, where Czech president Milos Zeman lives, it was pretty obvious David Černý was behind it.
Heroin Holiday - Trailer
Every August, while Europe's desk jockeys shut off their phones and head to the beach, the junkies of Prague set up camp in the poppy fields outside the city for a vacation of their own. For one glorious month, there are no cops to run from, no dealers...
Mr. Hálek's Fungus
Václav Hálek is the world's most prolific composer of mushroom songs. As in the songs they sing to him. The mushrooms. Because God asked them to.
The Soviet Ghost Town in the Czech Republic
There’s a little bit of the Soviet empire left in the middle of the Czech Republic, but it’s abandoned, decaying, and forgotten. How could two towns, one Czech and one Russian, exist without the residents knowing about each other? If you’ve got enough...
Red Bull Rookies Cup - Ride Fast. Live Young.
The final two races in the Czech Republic will keep you on the edge of your seat as Sturla Fagerhaug battles with his arch rival, Jakub Kornfeil. Who will emerge on top?