An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

Check the time in 145 countries at once with this East German relic.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

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

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

The 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" lends its name to a subway station, a street, and several shops on the edge of Berlin.

The best bagels in Berlin are tucked away in an independent bookstore.

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

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

These spindly, stone-capped formations are the product of glacial deposits and thousands of years of erosion.

CERN's beautiful, bending sculpture is a tribute to the spread of knowledge.

Abbey built on the ruins of Roman catacombs.

The bears of Bern have been a city highlight for over 500 years.

A cablecar-station-turned-revolving restaurant with 360-degree views of the Swiss skyline.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

Caves famous for the dragon-slaying saint who lived there.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.