The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

"Holy Wisdom" overlooks the city that became its namesake.

Sofia's legislative center is continuously reinventing itself.

A striking symbol of the Bulgarian capital.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

There's a mini version of Iguazu Falls hidden in the Balkans, and it's got a rope swing.

A bridge destroyed three times: once as a ruse, then in an actual attack, and finally for the movies.

A somber memorial honors the hundreds of thousands of lives lost at this labor and extermination camp.

A monument on the pavement marks the spot where two cultures that shaped Sarajevo come together.

The place where World War I began.

Inat Kuća, or "House of Spite," is more than just an oddly named restaurant.

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

This fairytale inspired, warped building houses restaurants, shops, and a radio station.

A floundering Polish shipyard was once the soul of the Solidarity movement that capsized communism.

The ruins of an Estonian prison are drowning in the quarry lake where the convicts were once forced to work.

Whitewashed mosque contains the world's largest carpet.

Fantastic views and thousands of love locks.

Founded as a refugee camp, now a popular tourist spot.

Traditional 11th-century outdoor tannery.