Prague, Czechia
Statue of Franz Kafka
A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.
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Prague, Czechia
A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.
Prague, Czechia
Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.
Hamburg, Germany
Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.
Hamburg, Germany
Carved scenes of sex work and unglamorous labour beneath a cultural hero.
Hamburg, Germany
This red light district plaza memorializes the Fab Four and their historic connection to the area.
Hamburg, Germany
Hidden in plain sight on a gable between two towers on the roof of shipping firm F. Laeisz' headquarter in Hamburg sits an unexpected bronze sculpture.
Hamburg, Germany
Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.
Hamburg, Germany
This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.
Bremen, Germany
Constructed by forced laborers, this submarine pen is now a museum and war memorial.
Berlin, Germany
Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.
Berlin, Germany
This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.
Berlin, Germany
Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.
Berlin, Germany
The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.
Los Angeles, California
The man who voiced Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and more has a headstone reading, "That's all, folks!"
Los Angeles, California
Because there's no place like home.
Los Angeles, California
Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.
Los Angeles, California
A tiny rock climber scales the headstone of a beloved director.
Los Angeles, California
World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.
Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.
New York, New York
This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.
Brooklyn, New York
Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.
Brooklyn, New York
This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.
Brooklyn, New York
One of the few Glatt kosher delis in the United States is a cornerstone of its Hasidic neighborhood.
Parker, Arizona
This huge dam across the Colorado River caused an armed standoff between two U.S. states.