A sculpture serving as an homage to Pope John Paul II.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."

This historic black and white monastery is one of Bulgaria's architectural jewels.

"Unity, Creativity, Beauty."

Eastern Bloc nostalgia, anybody?

A Bulgarian monument to Russia's role in World War II is constantly being painted in pop culture protest.

A striking symbol of the Bulgarian capital.

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

Sofia's legislative center is continuously reinventing itself.

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.

There is a strange little carving of a person seemingly crushed by a pillar behind the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

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

This gem is often wrongly overshadowed by the larger, newer Metropolis church in Athens.

Over 60 chemical plants and oil refineries sit in a 15-mile-wide section outside town.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

Legends say that this Art Deco apartment building almost became Hitler's British headquarters.

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.