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

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

Extremely famous in his native country, this Cracovian painter is all but unknown beyond Polish borders.

Nine bronze hands protruding from a wall honor the student uprising that led to the fall of Czechoslovakia's Communist government.

Locals say the stone that marks the spot where the gallows once stood can lead you astray.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

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

A diminutive statue that was inspired by the sculptor's own daughter.

A triumphant marble and bronze fountain depicting a 15th-century Hungarian king and his hunting party.

The world’s first statue of the late Apple co-founder.

A statue in Budapest's Liberty Square honors the former U.S. president's efforts to end the Cold War.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

The freeway that never was.

An ode to the friendship between four Pacific Rim countries.

Every weekend, people gather here for a brief chance to see their loved ones on the other side of the United States–Mexico border.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

Tijuana's legendary jai alai or "basque ball" palace is now a massive music venue.

Gnomes have their very own bonsai-landscaped settlement on a university campus.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

A plaque marks the spot where the saint was shoved off the Charles Bridge and into the river.

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

An apparition of Virgin Mary in Herzegovina.