Church of Our Lady Victorious and The Infant Jesus of Prague

That tiny wax figure you're about to meet has survived being thrown from a window during the Thirty Years' War, had its hands snapped off by revolutionaries in 1631, and still receives more marriage proposals than any statue in Europe – seriously, over two hundred love letters arrive here each year from desperate romantics. Before this baroque beauty rose in 1613, German Lutheran merchants built their own church on this exact spot in 1611, only to watch Catholic forces seize it after the Battle of White Mountain in 1620. Look up at that ornate facade – those swirling columns and golden details were added in 1636 when Italian architects transformed this Protestant chapel into a Catholic showpiece, literally plastering over the Lutheran inscriptions that you can still find... if you know where to look behind the third pillar on your left. Step inside and prepare for the shock – that famous Infant Jesus statue, just eighteen and a half inches tall, wears a wardrobe worth 1.2 million euros, with forty-six different outfits changed according to the liturgical calendar by the Carmelite sisters who've guarded this treasure since Spanish noblewoman Polyxena of Lobkowicz donated it in 1628. The wax coating on the wooden figure has been touched up exactly seven times, and here's the secret nobody tells you... whisper now... the statue's original face is completely different from what you see today – French soldiers accidentally melted half of it in 1639, and the restoration gave him those famously chubby cheeks that weren't there before.