A 90-ton, gravity-defiant steam locomotive shoots for the skies in this bizarrely beautiful public artwork.

A collection of old neon signs from all over Poland line a secluded courtyard.

In the center of Wrocław's old meat market stands a somber tribute to the city's livestock.

The silly symbol for an underground protest group is now scattered around the city.

A striking public sculpture representing the period of martial law in Communist Poland.

A tribute to the first human in space.

A cluster of headless, armless sculptures looms within a popular Polish park.

An impressive monument to Poland's independence.

An abandoned football stadium with a tragic past.

These mechanical goats first battled it out in the year 1551, all because of an overcooked deer.

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

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

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

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

The original burial place of this preeminent 18th-century Jewish philosopher was razed by the Nazis.

Visitors can explore the role of mysticism throughout the ages inside this interactive museum of magic.

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

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

Dedicated to the European Sinti and Roma peoples murdered during the Holocaust.

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

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

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

This World War II bunker now survives as a documentation of the Nazi regime and war crimes.

A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.