A black cat protests the City Guild in Riga's Old Town.

The oldest housing complex in Riga is a mini timeline of architectural trends.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

A former Latvian headquarters of the brutal KGB secret police is now open as a grim reminder of their atrocities.

Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

Walk inside a half mile long crevice right outside the town of Garmisch Partenkirchen.

Böttcherstraße's bells, extolling Nordic virtues and the great conquerors of the world.

This small exhibition displays equipment and artifacts once belonging to the feared Stasi secret police.

Every half hour the eye-rolling clock face sticks out its tongue to mock the good citizens of Koblenz.

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

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

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

The many—66 to be exact—faces of the German forest.

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

This incredible stone temple is a monument to death, victory, and fantasy architecture.

A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

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

This World War II bunker now survives as a documentation of the Nazi regime and war crimes.

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

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.