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

A statue in Budapest's Liberty Square honors the former U.S. president's efforts to end the Cold War.

Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

A 19th century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

Inside the world's largest seed bank, WWII botanists elected to starve to death rather than compromise their collection.

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

This series of Baroque passageways in Vienna's cultural center mix old architecture with modern art.

A neo-Gothic church built to thank God for saving the Emperor of Austria from an assassination.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

A peculiar clock commemorates a historic victory won by ringing the noonday bell an hour early.

This hanging crocodile is thought to be the "dragon" that once plagued a Czech city.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.

A statue honors the children who fought Nazis in Poland.

Warsaw's fantastically preserved gasworks...almost.