This monumental work of art symbolizes the coming together of a previously divided city.

A towering monument to war, located on a beautifully peaceful hill.

This concrete residential area doubles as an open-air gallery.

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

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

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

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

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

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

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

A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.

This ordinary-looking rock may have played an important role in a 16th-century Scottish battle.

A snapshot of Scottish folklore and magical heritage.

A never-finished memorial to the heroes of the Napoleonic War has become "Scotland's Folly."

This city square dates back to the Scottish Enlightenment and was home to some of Scotland's brightest minds.

Small sculpted heads of prominent phrenologists mark the outside of their former headquarters.

A multi-storied painting that depicts the area's rich and diverse maritime history.

The remnants of a facade from a 19th-century market stall emporium.

Once designed as a natural history museum, this building is now home to a massive art gallery.

As part of an 800-year-old tradition, a man parades through town covered in a suit made out of spiky burrs.

Edinburgh's oldest statue hides within a parking lot behind the city's iconic cathedral.

This tiny weathered plot is one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in Scotland.

Poetic, metallic giraffes adorn a square off an Edinburgh thoroughfare.

This charming old building's loose connection with the Scottish Reformer is what saved it from demolition after it split apart.