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

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

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

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

The abandoned remains of this Victorian brewery hide crumbling bowling alleys and rusting industrial gear.

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

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

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

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

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

Warsaw's fantastically preserved gasworks...almost.

After the famous composer died in Paris, his sister snuck his heart out of the country to honor his wish that it be buried in their native country.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.