For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.

These legendary stone steps were once used to haul coffins up the rockface.

Two minuscule windows are tucked inside this medieval building.

A 2,000-ton rock resting in a state of a delicate balance.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

A faded reminder of what was once a common sight in London during the Blitz.

A lasting remnant of the London Blitz.

Outside of one of Britain's most renowned social clubs, a step installed specifically for the Duke.

The final resting place of a German diplomat's beloved companion.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

The site of one of the largest prison escapes of World War II.

This towering statue of Jesus provided internet to the surrounding area.

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

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

A haunting contrast of trains that both saved and took the lives of Jewish children in Nazi Germany.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

This platform is now a memorial dedicated to those who were deported during the Holocaust.

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

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

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.