Karlovy Vary · Things to do

Watch glassblowers work the furnace at the 1857 crystal works, then the museum. Out of the centre on bus 1 or 2.

Pseudo-Gothic tower of 1889 up in the woods, reached on foot and far emptier than the Diana platform.

Town history from the springs to the spa boom, useful for making sense of all those colonnades you just walked.

Dientzenhofer baroque above the Hot Spring Colonnade, with an underground crypt of exposed burial vaults below it.

Czech 20th-century painting and sculpture in a quiet villa in the Dvorak gardens, a good rainy-afternoon hour.