Legend has it that Napoleon Bonaparte fell in love with this Gothic church.

This micro-nation may be some sort of prank, but its constitution sure seems official.

A memorial to the murdered Jews of Kaunas.

After a nearly successful attempt on Hitler's life, the conspirators met their fate in the courtyard of this Berlin building.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

What happens here stays here – unless it affects the whole world.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

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

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.