The rest of the West...

Krakow, Poland
Wawel Hill
This is main attraction of Krakow is the castle and cathedral which are located on Wawel Hill. It's really funny how most of the city is flat and then there's just this giant hill all of the sudden.
Wawel Cathedral
The cathedral has like a bunch of stuff in it. And you get this ticket with a part that gets stamped for each of them. It's really weird. It's like most organized, and yet most disorganized thing I've been to. Every time you go through one of the "exhibits" you exit the building and had to go back inside through the one entrance. The exhibits: Crypt, Tombs, Sigismund Bell, and the Cathedral Museum. The Sigismund Bell is the largest bell in Poland. It's pretty big... One might even say huge. :-) It was pretty cool walking around the other stuff with Shannon because she knows a lot of Eastern European history and she told me about what all the stuff these people did during their lives. Like, I saw the only woman in Polish history to be king. Pretty darn cool.
Main Market Square
The main square was pretty cool. It has a 16th century building called the Cloth Hall. It has a big (and overpriced) souvenir market. Then there was St. Mary's Church.
The Florian Gate/Barbican
The Florian Gate is pretty much just a gate, otherwise known as an arch in a wall, but it did have a cool icon in it. And the Barbican is like a giant defense bastion (aka tower) which was built in 1498.
The Mall
It sounds lame, but it got dark and cold really early so we went to the mall and got warm. I also bought a coat and stuff so that I would stay warm as we went to colder and colder places. Also, we has just flown in that morning and were leaving by train that night, so we didn't have a hostel to go to or anything.

Prague, Czech Republic
Hostel #1
We got in so early that our hostel wasn't even open yet. So we went to McDonald's and ate something before we went back. Then we got there and they told us we couldn't check into our rooms until the afternoon.
The Mall
The second mall in like 12 hours? I know, kind of pathetic. But this time we had a reason! Shannon's huuuuuge backpack had broken, and mine was really too small for the length of our journey, so we both bought medium-sized backpacks. For a travel backpack, $50 wasn't so bad. Most school backpacks now aren't that cheap! It's so much nicer than a suitcase, too, for short trips. Yay! By the time we bought them, we went back to the hostel and could check into our room.
Prague Castle
Prague Castle is definitely the coolest castle ever. EVER. It's also ridiculously high up. Especially when only having slept like 4 hours or something. But it was totally worth it. So beautiful.
St. Vitus Cathedral
This cathedral is in the castle and is amazingly beautiful. It has a large number of ENORMOUS stained glass windows, one of which was designed by the famous Mucha. Really awesome.
Old Royal Palace
Also in the castle. The Palace is pretty cool, except for it's emptiness. There was only one or two rooms there with stuff in them. I mean, it was pretty interesting stuff, but... Well, I guess you can't ask tons of furniture and stuff when a palace is like hundreds and hundreds of years old.
The Story of Prague Castle
This exhibition is located underneath the Old Royal Palace. Pretty cool, but way way way too in-detail. You could spend like 1,000 hours in there and not read everything. Whoo. But they had the artifacts there. Cool old stuff!
Basilica of St. George
In a beautiful red building in the castle, this church is definitely not as cool as the cathedral, but it is really old. And in a red building. I dunno, I guess this was like the thing in Prague I wasn't really impressed by.
Golden Lane
Lonely Planet really says it best: this "16th-century tradesmen's quarter of tiny houses built into the castle walls, is a souvenir-laden tourist trap." We just kinda walked through it since we already bought the ticket. I mean, it was really cute—really, extremely cute—but we weren't in the market for souvenirs.
Charles Bridge
This is a really old bridge from the 18th century with 30 statues along it. We watched the fireworks on New Year's from the bridge. There were lots and lots of fireworks everywhere, but the main ones were from a barge on the river right in front of us. Amazing!
Old Town Square
There's like lots of cool old stuff: St. Nicholas Church, Old Town Hall, and an astronomical clock that was built in 1410 and still works! Although, kind of unimpressive except for the fact that it's extremely old.
Mucha Museum
This was a very small museum with some very amazing artwork. I really like Mucha a lot. His style is very unique. He was also obsessed with Russia (and slavic people in general). Awesome. :-)
Wenceslas Square
This is a really long skinny square with a statue of St. Wenceslas on a horse. There's also a shrine to the victims of communism, the major ones being two students who burned themselves alive in 1969 in protest at the Soviet invasion.
The Communism Museum
Squeezed in between Prague's largest McDonald's and a casino, it's really amazingly objective. The information itself was really moving enough, to make it more emotional would've just been off-putting.
The Jewish Museum
Really amazing. The entire museum spans like 6 or 7 places. Each one is dedicated to a different theme. The Spanish Synagogue was definitely the best though. It was the most beautiful, and it housed all of the information from the 20th century. Amazing...except for all the crowds of tourists pushing and shoving.
Hostel #2
The hostel was really hard to find, and the people weren't very nice, and they didn't even know how to turn the heat on (luckily, I figured it out), but it was located near a VERY delicious Chinese food restaurant. Mmmm, I miss Americanized Chinese food.
Language Skillz
Also, one more thing. I speak Russian, a slavic language, a very hard language. So, when I say that Czech is the most ridiculous slavic language I've ever seen, you won't take it lightly. Ugh, gross. Kudos to everyone who can hack it.

Vienna, Austria
Hofburg
The Habsurgs' Imperial Palace in the city is amazing. It's huuuuuuge. I've never seen a bigger palace. We got to see the royal dinner service collection (I forget what it was actually called) as well as the Sissi Museum and the royal apartments. They even pointed out the rooms that Alexander I stayed in during the Congress of Vienna after the defeat of Napoleon. Sweeeet.
Museumsquartier
This is like a huuuuge complex of museums, including the Leopold Museum and a modern art museum. The Leopold Museum has the largest collection of Egon Schiele paintings, which was awesome. Who knew? The modern art museum had a really cool exhibition from contemporary Chinese artists, as well as some Yoko Onos and Andy Warhols in its regular exhibition.
Naschmarkt
Oh my god! The food market! Looking back on these pictures makes me want to cry a little bit. Everything was so delicious-looking! And everyone was so nice! Well, except for that one lady who wanted us to pay 5 euros to take a picture of her stand. Ha!

And that concludes the Western Europe part of our tour... Please forgive me for taking so long to get this stuff up.

And don't forget to check out the photos! You can see what all of this stuff looks like there...

Next up, Eastern Europe...