The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.

This prison on the Maltese island of Gozo is almost 500 years old, and they have the graffiti to prove it.

This curious sculpture represents the perseverance needed to take to the skies.

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

Berlin's old airport.

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.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.