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A haunting contrast of trains that both saved and took the lives of Jewish children in Nazi Germany.

Shimmering sea-colored mosaics and Jesus statues cover this opulent building.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.

A series of haunting wooden totems are hidden in the woods surrounding a German environmental center.

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.

Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.

The history of German architecture is explored across this fairy-scale mini-city.

The medieval institution is home to the precious treasure stolen in World War II in one of the greatest art thefts of the 20th century.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

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

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

An old spa town in the mountains of Romania where, according to legend, the great hero Hercules once bathed.

This 11th-century structure is one of the oldest churches in Romania.

One of the oldest churches in Romania is believed to have been built on the site of a pagan temple.

These light, hollow rolls have been linked to Acadia National Park since the 1890s.

A model solar system adds a celestial touch to this suburban park.

Among the oldest structures in Madrid, these Moorish walls once guarded the medieval city of Mayrit.

This lucky bronze frog was gifted to Madrid by a casino.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

For more than a century, revolutionary graffiti has marked the wall of a Parisian church.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.