St. Vitus Cathedral

This guide to St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague sits with a local legend: a crown belonging only to Saint Wenceslas, kept behind a door with seven locks, said to kill within a year any pretender who wears it. It follows Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi official ruling occupied Prague in 1942, and the rumor that spread through the city after his death, that he had once slipped into this cathedral and set the crown on his own head. Along the way it traces the six centuries of construction behind the building that guards this story, from 1344 to 1929.