A museum dedicated to the former country.

Nikola Tesla's ashes are held in a golden sphere, surrounded by his works.

This effigy of Peter the Great is greatly disproportionate.

A scale model of Russia so big visitors are offered binoculars to rent so they can see the whole thing.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

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

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

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

Berlin's old airport.

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

Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.

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

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

Berliners converted a bombed-out, disused lot into a community-run urban farm with its own cafe and bar.

This bird-loving brewery is situated in an old municipal bathhouse, nestled beside a 300-year-old windmill.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

This statue honors the thousands of Allied avians that served and died for France during World War I.

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