A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Berlin's old airport.

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

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

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

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

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

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

The castle was reconstructed to fit Kaiser Wilhelm II's romanticized vision of the Middle Ages.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.

The world's tallest bridge is also possibly the most elegant.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.