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

A 19th century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

Remains of the old fortification along the Western border of the USSR, now an elaborate defense museum.

The old fire station features a mural that has more to it than first meets the eye.

Nearly three decades since the fall of the Soviet Union, the hero of the USSR still stands over Belarus.

Remnants of the city's Soviet history hover over this modern fast-food outlet.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

A statue honors the children who fought Nazis in Poland.

A tree planted by Marie Curie is treasured by the Radium institute that she set up.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

The Polish capital has had a deep connection to its guardian mermaid for almost a millennium now.

A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.

A cemetery for Slovenian notables also serves as a popular recreation space.

This small Slovenian town has become a magnet for microbreweries.

Nibble as you learn about Slovenia's longstanding tradition of making beautiful honey cookies.

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

This massive subterranean fissure is known as the "underground Grand Canyon."

This wooden hotel is a temple to German sustainability and forest conservation.

A fascinating little museum dedicated to the thousands of chemical substances concealed in our food.

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

A portable, wooden replica (minus the hyphen) of Hamburg’s iconic crooked coffee shop.

Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

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