The scars of World War II are preserved on its walls.

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

During World War II, the Nazis repurposed this beer cellar to store stolen artwork.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

This historic toy museum brings a little whimsy to a city not usually remembered for such things.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

This strange statue features a bust of the famous composer plopped atop a woman's body.

Amidst medieval and baroque buildings, five human-sized gherkins stand tall.

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

A neo-Gothic church built to thank God for saving the Emperor of Austria from an assassination.

Thanks to the building of a life-giving reservoir, part of the Great Wall of China is now a dive site.

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.

A son-and-daughter meat market, hawked by mom and dad.

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

This probably wasn't what Mao had in mind.

This working replica of the 'Friends' coffee shop is more accurate to the show than the set itself.

This Tang Dynasty behemoth is the biggest Buddha in the world.