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

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

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

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

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

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

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

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

One of the largest Marian shrines on the West Coast stands rather unexpectedly in Silicon Valley.

A grave marker depicting a body snatching tableau on a 19th-century tombstone.

Displaced highlanders would take shelter from the wet Scottish climate under the large walled bridge at Glasgow Central Station.

The Scottish Reformation leader's grave was paved over and is now a parking lot.

This mundane post marks the old location of the city's main postal hub.

Overlooking the burial ground is a tower designed to prevent thieves from snatching the recently deceased.

This charming old building's loose connection with the Scottish Reformer is what saved it from demolition after it split apart.

Touching this 18th-century Scottish philosopher’s toe allegedly conjures good fortune.