The Moravian karst is a region of limestone caves north-ish of Brno. You can explore many of them on guided tours, and they're a remarkable underground experience.
The most visited caves are those of Punkva, where you can take a boat deep into the system underneath the 138m-deep Maccha Abyss. But for the spookiest alien-world feel, take a tour of
Balcarka Cave (Jeskyně Balcarka) nearby. (All the caves are accessible by public transport or bike, but having a car or a taxi may be easier.)
Balcarka's labyrinth of fissures, caves, passages, tunnels, vaults and voids has a huge variety of weird shapes on the walls, engraved drip by drip over aeons. Stalagmites and stalagtites. Fossilised ECG traces. Exoplanetary landscapes. Organic cathedrals. Fantasy prog-rock LP covers designed by Roger Dean circa 1976.
It's not the only visitable cave of course. Not far away, the very different
Výpustek offers a former nuclear shelter, wartime lorry depot (yes, inside the caves) and a concert hall (yes, inside the caves).
It's all part of Czechia's amazing underground worlds. Of course, the stuff above the surface isn't bad either.
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