Modern art commemorates one of the first military actions of World War II.

A mysterious emblem tucked in an small alleyway is actually the coat of arms of a heroic medieval family.

A huge wooden clock that is so beautiful its creator was forcibly blinded.

A merchant court dedicated to the fictitious King Arthur is heavily adorned with bizarre Renaissance art.

A prime example of socialist modernist architecture, wrapped in a enormous fresco about the media.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

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

Dedicated to the European Sinti and Roma peoples murdered during the Holocaust.

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

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

An ornate private entrance to the Vienna subway built specifically for the emperor.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

On a winding Vienna side street, one museum has turned their windows into a monument to history’s peace-minded heroes.

A mechanical clock built in 1914, with a rotation of 12 historical figures on its face.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

In the middle of a Vienna square, Roman ruins dating back some 2,000 years are on display.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”