Medical history with an amazing, if frighting, collection of wax diseases on display.

A magnificent collection of imperial armor and weaponry.

Annual technopop celebration of peace and love.

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

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

This concrete residential area doubles as an open-air gallery.

Inside this Jewish cemetery is a memorial to soldiers who deserted the German army and were executed.

Once a path for Jewish funeral processions, this unassuming alleyway is rich in local lore.

A plaque marks the former home of Käthe Paulus, an aerial acrobat who invented the modern folding parachute.

This TV tower once secretly housed a GDR intelligence team.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.

Berliners converted a bombed-out, disused lot into a community-run urban farm with its own cafe and bar.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

The original burial place of this preeminent 18th-century Jewish philosopher was razed by the Nazis.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.

The railway carts travelers to central Athens's highest peak, which offers stunning vistas of the city.

This mystical orb covered in strange symbols is thought to have been used in ancient Greek magical rituals.

The shell of a medieval fortress offers commanding views of the area it once protected.

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.