The Lone Star plaque hangs in a bombed-out bunker in Normandy to honor a Texan colonel's heroic actions on D-Day.

An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.

Bloodstains can still be seen in this medieval church where two medics saved lives on D-Day.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

A daring D-Day assault by U.S. Army Rangers is commemorated atop the high cliffs of this strategic point.

A sculpture of the iconic East German car on four legs is a tribute to those who traveled to Prague seeking asylum.

Microscopic scenes; some call it novelty, some call it art.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

Tucked away in a Prague park, a statue beloved by romantics honors a poet so nice they buried him twice.

Increasingly decayed figures stand as a powerful reminder of the human costs of Czech Communism.

Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

This walkway is so narrow it needs its own light to stop pedestrian traffic jams.

This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.

The oldest garden in Prague, once part of an medieval orchard.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

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

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

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.