A favorite with sightseers, this Norwegian funicular provides easy access to a stunning view of Bergen and its environs.

Once home to artillery, this garden offers more peace today than it did during its war-torn past.

Tiny communists hammer away on the Olomouc Astronomical Clock.

An ornate plague column – built to celebrate life – claimed the lives of numerous artisans during its construction.

A relic of the Cold War tucked away in the forested hills above Bratislava.

Also known as the Blue Church, the building was consecrated to the daughter of Andrew II.

On Gellért Hill, this statue depicts the tragic tale of lovers divided by the Danube.

This easily overlooked memorial immortalizes the scars from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

From Austrians to Nazis to Soviets, this historic Budapest fortress has a history as complex as the city itself.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

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

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

This 13th century Gothic brick castle is the largest in the world by surface area.

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

Modern art commemorates one of the first military actions of World War II.

The site of the first battle of World War II.

A floundering Polish shipyard was once the soul of the Solidarity movement that capsized communism.

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

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

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

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

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

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