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Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

Bronzes and busts that once stood in the city's main squares are now relegated to a small hidden courtyard.

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

Sidney Scurvy, the interactive computer sailor, takes you on a journey to discover the everyday lives of Cook and his men.

This steel sculpture made from a recycled crane towers above a former shipyard.

This tribute to Sunderland's mining past stands outside the home of its football club.

These giant sculptures are supported by a bizarre menagerie of feet.

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

Several of these strange cone-shaped bunkers can still be seen around the former Nazi headquarters.

One of the largest busts in the world celebrates the German city's erstwhile namesake.

This former Soviet military base has over 10 original aircraft and an enormous amount of memorabilia on display.

Germany's last remaining Lenin statue has become a lightning rod of debate about the country's divided past.

This 18th-century folly is one of Europe's rare "garden mosques."

A top-secret bunker now turned museum, is an eerie look at what life would have looked like in the event of nuclear war.

An officers prison camp believed to be impregnable by the Germans saw over 30 successful escapes.

A subterranean display of public art and architecture.

This East German military command bunker was ready for World War III.

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

The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.

Solar observatory doubles as a daring display of Expressionist architecture, much to Einstein's chagrin.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.

A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.

Twisted buildings adorn the banks of the Rhine river.