Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

This strange sculpture is an enigmatic icon of this medieval German town.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

A city's controversial tribute to its founder depicts townspeople flashing their bare behinds.

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

A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.

A tilted half-timbered house from 1672 is built into a salvaged segment of a medieval wall.

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

The medieval institution is home to the precious treasure stolen in World War II in one of the greatest art thefts of the 20th century.

A larger-than-life statue of the German revolutionist stands proud in a small town where he never lived.

This charming wooden church was disassembled and moved not once but twice before settling in this Prague garden.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

Two large posteriors in one giant statue.

A stone slab in Madrid marks the point from which the distances of Spain's national roads are measured.

Giant topiary dog once played a role in a terrorist bomb plot.

The oldest Roman lighthouse still in use.

The Cathedral of Salamanca has a number of unusual carvings but none so surprising as a modern astronaut.

In the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere, celestial wonders marked a portal to a powerful route of travel at this site in Madrid, Spain.

Bold black and white motifs of life and death add a dramatic flair to this 17th-century crypt.