Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

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

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

Naturally formed rock city in Poland.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

Explore the complex ecology of this multifaceted nature preserve by riverboat.

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

A replica of the Liberty Bell rang daily from West Berlin's City Hall throughout the Cold War.

A fairytale Gothic castle steeped in Nazi treasure conspiracy theories.

An underground city of salt.

This grubby wall is said to be one of the Earth's esoteric energy centers.

Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

A striking public sculpture representing the period of martial law in Communist Poland.

The silly symbol for an underground protest group is now scattered around the city.

Relive a Polish uprising via an enormous, century-old cyclorama.

The site of the first battle of World War II.

This 700-year-old structure is one of the most unique architectural and historic monuments in Gdańsk.

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

A merchant court dedicated to the fictitious King Arthur is heavily adorned with bizarre Renaissance art.

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