A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

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

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

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.

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

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

In Kazakhstan, a colorful cathedral with many lives once survived the most powerful earthquake in the region.