A museum honoring Germany’s cucumber mecca offers a great dill of gherkin history.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

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

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

This antique thermometer honors the creator of the first universal temperature scale.

A huge wooden clock that is so beautiful its creator was forcibly blinded.

The site of the first battle of World War II.

An existential riddle in the world's largest ancient castle.

This walkway is so narrow it needs its own light to stop pedestrian traffic jams.

Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.

What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

This charming wooden church was disassembled and moved not once but twice before settling in this Prague garden.

Increasingly decayed figures stand as a powerful reminder of the human costs of Czech Communism.

Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

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

The risqué mixed-media sculptures are supposedly a metaphor for Czech politics.

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