This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

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

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

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

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

When the rain falls, this drain system turns into a musical instrument.

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.

Straight out of a nightmare, barcode-faced babies climb up and down Prague's television tower.

An enormous and lavish Gothic church in Czechia.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

This oddly beautiful water cistern is a techno-temple to the wet stuff and a multimedia masterpiece.

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

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

Relive a Polish uprising via an enormous, century-old cyclorama.

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

These 12th-century catacombs carved into a mountainside were a place of mysticism and Christian hermitages.

The Roman city was the birthplace of various emperors and is home to one of the empire's most impressive architectural feats.

Around half a million years ago, these magnificent columnar basalt cliffs were formed from cooling lava.