Legends say 16th century Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezazel, or Maharal, created a man from earth to help protect the Jewish ghetto of Prague. The creature was know as Golem. By writing the Hebrew word for life on a slip of paper and putting it in the Golem's mouth, it came to life. One day Maharal forget to remove the paper to let the golem rest and the Golem became so tired it went mad, throwing people into the Moldau and destroying the streets. Maharal rushed down to deactivate the Golem and its body was thereafter stored in the attic of the Old New Synagogue. That's the door to the attic pictured above. They say a Nazi crept inside during the war to see if the stories of the Golem were true and they found his crushed body where it landed in the synagogue lawn.

Side note: the Old New Synagogue is Europe's oldest active synagogue, finished in 1270. The stones used in its construction allegedly come from the temple in Jerusalem, to be returned after the Messiah appears. Not a bad deal.