This "Atomic Egg" appears on the city of Garching's coat of arms.

This beautiful 19th-century temple stands atop the ruins of its predecessor.

When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.

This tribute to the 16th-century composer is now an unusual shrine to Michael Jackson.

One of the most easily accessible examples of the rare 1960s UFO houses.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

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

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

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

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Some Moscow residents once claimed the bizarre, contorted mass of metal on top of the building was used to manipulate minds.

Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry."

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

The USSR’s Conquest of Nature lead to the domestication of many moose—no squirrel.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.