This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

After a nearly successful attempt on Hitler's life, the conspirators met their fate in the courtyard of this Berlin building.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

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

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

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

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

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

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

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

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.