A 26-foot shark sculpture—a statement about bombs—set off a municipal battle royale.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

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

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

A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

A prime example of socialist modernist architecture, wrapped in a enormous fresco about the media.

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

One of the oldest bridges in Norwich was used during the English witch trials and is said to be haunted.

This medieval castle is filled with an eccentric collection that ranges from ancient Egyptian artifacts to taxidermy to a mummified hand that was cut off during a duel.

A sculpture serving as an homage to Pope John Paul II.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

England's most notorious suicide spot.

Once designed as the entrance to Buckingham Palace, this structure was later relocated and stands as a victory arch.

Originally meant to hold a statue of King William IV, this support sat empty for years. Today, it hosts a rotating cast of public artwork.

Sculptor Antony Gormley used chaos theory and fractal growth to design his tallest creation.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.