Not quite the cultural gateway between China and Sweden its designer imagined.

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

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

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

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

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

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

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

A copy of the Statue of Liberty greets visitors to the birthplace of Auguste Bartholdi.

A colossal sculptural lion built by the same man who designed the Statue of Liberty.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.

This castle-fortress is a living example of the transition from medieval defenses to modern fortifications.

If there is one thing you don't want to be in Sweden during Christmas, it's a Yule Goat.

This Danish art forest places loud works of contemporary art among the pensive silence of nature.

Christ's blood preserved in a Belgian town.

These primitive rock paintings include a very beloved depiction of a woolly mammoth.

Giant topiary dog once played a role in a terrorist bomb plot.

This 19th-century fountain's namesake animal isn't what you think it is.