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.

The Goose Girl of Göttingen, Germany might well be the most kissed girl in the world.

The Swiss artist's bulbous and overgrown shape-shifting sculpture controversially graces the center of Bern.

This taxidermilogical collection was assembled by a peltmonger turned animal activist.

See the rare bloom of the "Queen of the Night" cactus at one of the world's largest succulent collections.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

Standing stones found on a construction site are re-erected.

Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

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

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

Art and a pun, all in one.

Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.

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

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

Take a stroll through the hellish grotesques of Hieronymus Bosch in this elaborate Netherlands church.

Bursting forth from a historic German neighborhood, these day-glo palaces are now a bright fixture in the town.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.