Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

A small marionette collection located within the dark cellars of an 11th-century Austrian castle.

Amidst medieval and baroque buildings, five human-sized gherkins stand tall.

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

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

An ancient Roman temple first dedicated to an emperor's wife is now a church.

This ancient market is often referred to as the oldest shopping mall in the world.

A mysterious chasm in the heart of the ancient Roman Forum, the Lacus Curtius was once believed to be a gateway to hell.

Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.

Dedicated to the European Sinti and Roma peoples murdered during the Holocaust.

For patriotic Russians, this memorial honoring the Soviet soldiers who died liberating Berlin in 1945 is the most sacred location outside of Russia.

The site where a plot to assassinate Hitler was planned—and its conspirators were executed—is now a powerful memorial to the German resistance during World War II.

The original burial place of this preeminent 18th-century Jewish philosopher was razed by the Nazis.

This monumental work of art symbolizes the coming together of a previously divided city.

A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

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

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

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

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

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

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