A plaque on the base of this statue holds a bewitching design.

Royals, rebels, and artists have all conversed at this grand 19th-century Viennese coffee house.

This grand manse has been transformed into a museum devoted to one of the founders of Fantastic Realism.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

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

The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

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

A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.

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

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

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

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

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

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

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

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

An abstract representation of weather in Sweden.

Several cannonballs of mysterious origins decorate two buildings in Stortoget's main square.

A 130-year-old urinal is the oldest of Stockholm and perhaps all of Sweden.

Outside a Viking museum sits a modern-day runestone made by a Swedish runemaster using traditional methods.

A man has revenged his true love's betrayal through tears and stone genitalia.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.