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

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

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

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

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

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

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

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

A small marionette collection located within the dark cellars of an 11th-century Austrian castle.

Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.

Giant WWII fortresses that fired 8,000 rounds a minute, now home to thousands of pigeons.

Museum devoted to the artificial language of Esperanto.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.