A statue honors the children who fought Nazis in Poland.

This 700-year-old structure is one of the most unique architectural and historic monuments in Gdańsk.

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

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

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

The entrance to this Frankfurt subway station looks like an old tram car crashed into the concrete sidewalk.

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

A relic from a forgotten bakery chain still spins atop a diner.

This cannon dating to 1755 has stood guard at this suburban intersection since 1915.

This twice-relocated "Usonian" home is among the smallest built by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

The 72-foot giant escaped confinement in a large patch of mulch only to be reburied in the sandy shores of the Potomac River.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.

The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

One of the last surviving C-97s sits in a field in front of a Wisconsin inn.