Museums and churches across Czech cities

The Brno cathedral is the Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul, standing on Petrov Hill above the old town. Here is what to look for: the 84-meter Gothic Revival towers, the Baroque interior, the older Gothic core, and how the church slots into a walk through central Brno.

Brno's underground is a set of separate cellar attractions under the old center, not one cave. The main one is the Labyrinth under Zelný trh, eight meters down, with a 200 Kč ticket, Tuesday–Sunday opening and a tiered discount for visiting several sites within two days.

Brno packs the country's second-largest art museum, its second-oldest museum, Moravia's biggest technical collection and Europe's only museum of Romani culture into one compact city. This guide groups them by neighborhood, says what each one holds, and shows how to fit the best of them into a single day without crossing Brno twice.

The Regional Museum is the one Český Krumlov museum to prioritize, with its Baroque Jesuit pharmacy and ceramic model of the town, and it deserves about an hour. The Egon Schiele Art Centrum and the smaller collections around the old town fill the rest of a museum morning.

Karlovy Vary's museums are small enough to fit between colonnade walks. The Karlovy Vary Museum is the pick for first-time visitors, with a permanent exhibition that runs from the Sprudel spring to the film festival. Here is what each museum holds, when it opens, and what tickets cost in CZK.

Kutná Hora's churches split into two clusters: St Barbara's above the old town and the two Sedlec churches a short ride away. Here is what each one is known for, what tickets cost in CZK, and how timed entry at the bone church actually works.

Beneath Znojmo's old town lies a roughly 25 km web of medieval cellars and passages, one of Central Europe's largest systems of its kind. Here is what the underground is and how to slot it into a South Moravia trip with Mikulov and Valtice.

Olomouc's museum scene splits into a few useful strands: the Archdiocesan Museum's church treasures, the Museum of Modern Art's contemporary collection, the Museum of Homeland History's regional material and the Olomouc Museum of Art's visual-arts side. This guide sorts them by what each holds, who it suits and how to walk between them in a day.

St Wenceslas Cathedral is the Gothic centerpiece of Olomouc, a building that layers a Romanesque remnant, a Neo-Gothic facade and a 100-meter tower. This guide reads the exterior, points out what to find inside and fits the visit into a walk between the city's two main squares.

Svatý Kopeček is Olomouc's hilltop pilgrimage site, crowned by the baroque Basilica of the Visitation of Our Lady. The draw is a single luminous interior: a dome of frescoes, a vault thick with stucco, a 1720s organ and a small tufa relief of the Virgin that has its own crown story.

St. Bartholomew's Cathedral is the church on Plzeň's main square, and the tower is the part you can visit on a ticket. Here is how the CZK admission tiers work, when the tower opens on weekdays versus weekends, and when interior guided tours run.

Zelená Hora is a five-pointed pilgrimage church of St. John of Nepomuk on a hill above Žďár nad Sázavou, designed by Jan Blažej Santini-Aichl for Abbot Václav Vejmluva. Its star plan, its tongue-and-star interior and its ring of pilgrimage ambits reward an hour of close looking rather than a quick photo stop.

The Škoda Museum in Mladá Boleslav is the car collection, the brand story and the old factory halls in one stop, while factory production tours and the museum depository are separate bookable visits. Here is how the site is laid out and how it fits a Český ráj route.