Locals spent years successfully fighting to save this beloved Brutalist behemoth from demolition.

A harrowing sculpture commemorates the four people shot down during the workers strike of 1842.

Everyone's favorite clay duo immortalized in bronze.

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

An empty bookshelf commemorates the books which were lost during the infamous event

Check the time in 145 countries at once with this East German relic.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

A rare chance to ride one of the few continuous elevators still in operation.

While you wait to cross the street at a traffic light in Mainz, you might notice that the light is staring back at you.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

The world's oldest grape-producing vine has survived four centuries of turmoil and even has its own anthem.

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.

A park where the Inn and Ilz rivers join the Danube as it slinks off into Austria.

This impressive castle looms over small German town.

Erosion and time have created a naturally-formed water park.

In the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks at 1,772 feet above sea level, Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest (and possibly oldest) peak in Missouri.

Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

The Old Courthouse takes visitors on a captivating trip through St. Louis' timeline.

The Magic House provides a beautiful and creative environment for curious youngsters to get their knowledge on.