Communism's topsy-turvy effect on Poland has been brought to life in this wacky tourist trap.

The site of the first battle of World War II.

This man-made mound monument was built out of soil from all across the Polish empire.

Part ski resort, part modern art space, this lodge brings giant metal spiders and bloody doors to the Austrian Alps.

Austria's ultra-modern art museum looks like Cthulhu's giant alien heart.

"World machine" built by an untrained Austrian farmer.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

This cubist Vienna church building looks like some sort of alien stonehenge.

This outsider art house has gone from clinical creation to astounding artwork.

The world's largest collection of intentionally useless inventions.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

After years of being casually peed on by humans, this tree is peeing back.

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

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

Bursting forth from a historic German neighborhood, these day-glo palaces are now a bright fixture in the town.

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

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

This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.

A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.