A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

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

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

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

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

A neo-Gothic mansion now houses a wunderkammer of analog tech that hits on all the senses.

On a winding Vienna side street, one museum has turned their windows into a monument to history’s peace-minded heroes.

The townhouse where the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory started her murderous career.

Collection dedicated to funeral rites, equipment, and mourning rituals of the Viennese.

This museum promotes informed contraception by documenting its often secret past.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.

One of the best collections of wax anatomical models in the world.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.