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

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

Art and a pun, all in one.

This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

This folk art compound was built by a fortune teller on the advice of three people from the future.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

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

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

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

From lefty Jewish gathering site to hip cultural site in just 80 years.

Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

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

A portable, wooden replica (minus the hyphen) of Hamburg’s iconic crooked coffee shop.

Giant topiary dog once played a role in a terrorist bomb plot.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

This ancient theater was once the home of fierce gladiatorial battles.

An often-shuddersome journey into a low-tech, robotic themepark.

What if all public housing projects had been designed by "the Pygmalion of modern architecture," not only their prototype?

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.