Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

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

A museum specifically dedicated to the Trabant, one of the iconic automobiles of the GDR.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

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

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

A former Canadian Pacific Railway station turned liquor store, the first and only station in Canada visited by British royalty.

An abandoned 1970s theme park that has been turned into a space for waterfront walking.

Known as the "Kissing Bridge" for its privacy, it also happens to be the last covered bridge in Ontario.

An 18.9-meter tower that pays tribute to the Pennsylvania-German pioneers who settled the Waterloo Region between 1800 and 1803.

This Hindu temple is an architectural marvel designed and built according to ancient Indian principles.

This "railway" for boats continues a waterway over a road.

Little island known for its massive beachfront "flowerpot" pillars.

The "birthplace of insulin," where Sir Frederick Banting realized the hormone could save the lives of Type 1 diabetics.

A petroleum heritage museum on the site where James Miller Williams dug the first commercial oil well on the continent in 1858.

Out of all the statues of Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, this one is the tallest and the most impressive.

Giant pagoda houses the car that drove Thích Quảng Đức to his death by self-immolation.