A sweet museum focused on beets.

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

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

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

Named after a militant urban guerilla, this famous former squat is a graffiti-covered stronghold of leftist culture.

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

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

This enormous abstract sculpture is part jungle gym, part elaborate noise-making machine.

A number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.

This picturesque monastery at the base of a cliff is a peaceful oasis open to all visitors.

Celebrated example of Ottoman architecture that also served as a site for brutal massacres.

A bridge destroyed three times: once as a ruse, then in an actual attack, and finally for the movies.

This abandoned Olympic skiing facility still bears the scars of the Siege of Sarajevo.

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

This cluster of little wooden huts once ground local farmers’ wheat into flour during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Zastava automobile sculptures and images grace various gravestones in this cemetery.

The figure atop this globe is from a Serbian play about a merchant's travels around the world.

What started as a collection of vintage tractors turned into a museum filled with cars, radios, and other oddities.

Once a bridge over the River Begej, now high and dry.

This tower is all that remains from a medieval fortress.

This symbol of Yugoslav liberation decorated with 620 carved heads of mythical creatures is now a forlorn relic of another time.

A museum dedicated to the classic Italian scooter in the heart of Serbia.