An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

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

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

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.

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

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

An oft-overlooked, magically musical monolith that stands majestically between Arlington Cemetery and the Iwo Jima Memorial.

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

A famous big wave from Japan serves as a tribute to the victims of the disastrous Elbe flood.

A half-buried vehicle in Prague's is the latest iteration in a long-running piece by Czech artist David Černý.

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

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

A plaque marks the spot where the saint was shoved off the Charles Bridge and into the river.

Increasingly decayed figures stand as a powerful reminder of the human costs of Czech Communism.