This whimsical statue dumps water on its head to symbolize knowledge flowing into his brain. Or maybe booze.

A man throwing a giant severed hand towers over Antwerp’s main square.

This statue dedicated to the story of a Flemish boy and his dog was relatively obscure in Belgium, but a cult sensation in Japan.

A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.

Berliners converted a bombed-out, disused lot into a community-run urban farm with its own cafe and bar.

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

A century-old shot ball factory tower is open to the public once a year.

This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

After a nearly successful attempt on Hitler's life, the conspirators met their fate in the courtyard of this Berlin building.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

A 14th-century fortified keep showcases the masterpieces of an ingenious 20th-century clockmaker.

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

The patron of this extravagant Art Nouveau confection insisted that nothing less than a boat should project from its facade.

A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.

These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

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

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.