Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.

A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

Straight out of a nightmare, barcode-faced babies climb up and down Prague's television tower.

One of the famous Czech artist's lesser-known Prague installations appears to be a glowing fetus affixed to a drainpipe.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.