Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.

The collection of signage remembers the midcentury pushback against the new neon light.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

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

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

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.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

A cake-themed art installation tucked away in historic Chinatown.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.