Once a prosperous mining village, this tiny Taiwanese town is now overrun with cute cats.

Two thousand feline artifacts fill Malaysia's "Cat City."

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Southeast Asia is a monument to a disappearing community.

One of the largest busts in the world celebrates the German city's erstwhile namesake.

Germany's last remaining Lenin statue has become a lightning rod of debate about the country's divided past.

One of the most iconic neon ads of former East Germany.

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

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

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

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

Named after a militant urban guerilla, this famous former squat is a graffiti-covered stronghold of leftist culture.

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

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

A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

From toys to kettles to scientific instruments, this German museum celebrates the beauty of 20th century design.

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

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

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

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

This smily stone feline is meant to represent a mythical lion that almost destroyed the island of Kea.

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