A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

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

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

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

Largely overlooked, this little fountain on Museum Island is a whimsical tribute to a Prussian king nicknamed the “Fatty Flounder.”

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

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

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

A towering monument to war, located on a beautifully peaceful hill.

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

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

Sitting beneath an unremarkable residential building is a museum devoted to classic Pinball.

Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

A much-loved sculpture depicting the hero of a 1956 anti-Soviet uprising.

A stone woman in a stylized dress honors a courageous politician.

This easily overlooked memorial immortalizes the scars from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

On a teardrop-shaped island in the Danube, the ruins of a convent and the final resting place of a saint.

From cartoon characters to tiny tanks, a guerilla sculptor's little bronze statues are hidden throughout the city of Budapest.

A highly-criticized monument in Budapest has become the site of a makeshift Holocaust memorial.

This building has survived for more than a century and remains virtually untouched.

A statue in Budapest's Liberty Square honors the former U.S. president's efforts to end the Cold War.

Also known as Uncle Karl, the beloved bronze copper keeps a watchful eye on St. Stephen’s Basilica while people rub his lucky belly.

Hungarian Jews were ghettoized during the Second World War, but little remains of the original wall that closed the Jewish people off from the rest of the city.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.