Czech Republic
A Czech Zoo Is Cutting Off Its Rhinos' Horns to Protect Them from Poachers
The decision comes in the wake of a recent, brutal murder of a rhino at a zoo in Paris.
Looking at the Ancient Catholic Practice of Turning Human Bones into Art and Furniture
Everyone dies, but not everyone gets to be turned into a light fixture.
How Do You Dismantle a Building Made of Human Remains?
Restorers at the Czech Republic's "bone church" are asking themselves the same question.
Annons
Artist David Cerney's Giant Purple "Screw You" to the Czech President
The sculptor sure knows how to attract attention.
Heroin Holiday
Every August, Prague's junkies set up camp in the poppy fields outside the city. If they ask, please tell our mums we went to Majorca.
Mr. Hálek's Fungus
Václav Hálek is the world's most prolific composer of mushroom songs. As in the songs they sing.
The New Roma Ghettos
In the last two years, as the Eurozone crisis worsens, there have been dozens of violent attacks on Roma.
The Soviet Ghost Town in the Czech Republic
It used to be secret, now it's mostly just rubble and smashed stuff.