Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

This newly renovated Soviet-era outdoor exhibition center is bigger than the principality of Monaco.

An iconic Soviet statue of working-class people.

One of the largest collections of socialist realist art shows the surprising depth of the official art of the Soviet Union.

Gargantuan home of Russian science.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

Its front wall is striped with a menagerie of fantastic beasts and magnificent monsters.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

This incredible stone temple is a monument to death, victory, and fantasy architecture.

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

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

If you visit the burial place of King Frederick the Great, you'll likely find a couple of potatoes sitting on his tombstone.

Art historians have debated the identity of this medieval stone rider since the 19th century.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

A tilted half-timbered house from 1672 is built into a salvaged segment of a medieval wall.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

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

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

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

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

The unusually large seat sits atop the base of a ruined temple.

This beautiful 19th-century temple stands atop the ruins of its predecessor.

Monumental sculptures guard many of the graves, transforming this necropolis into an open-air fine art museum.