This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

The highest tides in the world come in and out here twice a day, allowing you to essentially walk along the ocean floor.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

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

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

This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.

The bust of Romania’s most notorious ruler, Vlad Dracula aka "Vlad the Impaler," keeps watch over the ruins of his medieval court.

One of the most controversial statues in Romania is an emperor with no clothes.

Romania's triumphal arch looks out over Bucharest.

This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.

A celebration of all things tacky, garish, and bizarrely creative in the Romanian capital.

This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.

An underground city of salt.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

The railway carts travelers to central Athens's highest peak, which offers stunning vistas of the city.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

An ancient iron pillar in Delhi that seems to be rustproof.

Inside this sculpture park are dozens of woodcrafts crafted by the gentle hands of a chainsaw.

The city of Halifax still bears the scars of the largest explosion prior to the atomic bomb.