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Robot Mary and Jesus in the Czech Republic

If you're desperate for somewhere to sleep while traveling, sometimes a disused railway station can be a good bet. In the south of the Czech Republic, some clever marketers have turned a bunch of these out-of-use stations into money-generating apartments for tourists. Located deep in the forest between Jindrichuv Hradec and Obratan, they're booked out for the summer so you'll have to wait your turn.

What impresses us more about Jindrichuv Hradec, however, is its claim to fame for a "world's biggest". Completed in 1756, allegedly crafted by one man alone, the town holds claim to the largest hand-made mechanized nativity scene in the world. Local tourists come in their masses to see it, but if you rock in independently as we did (and fail to speak much Czech), the friendly guides will lock you in the room for your own special experience of this pretty Christmas scene. Now that's a scene worth seeing.

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