The 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" lends its name to a subway station, a street, and several shops on the edge of Berlin.

The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

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

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

This extensive collection covers thousands of years of Polish military history.

Special benches that play Chopin's music are scattered throughout his native city.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

This former shopping outlet is now adorned with beautiful graffiti and murals.

A land of debatable treasure.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

If you want to take a peek at Area 51, this is legally as close as you're going to get.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.