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

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.

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

A haunting contrast of trains that both saved and took the lives of Jewish children in Nazi Germany.

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

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

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

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

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

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

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

This unique architectural wonder is home to luxury apartments.

Generations have refused to move this doll from its dusty resting place to preserve a castle from a watery fate.

The original home of the Lego has a huge amusement park dedicated to the iconic plastic toy.

This Danish rock field is actually a sprawling ancient cemetery holding the bodies of 700 Vikings.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

The last king of Poland was interred in this church nearly 200 years after his death.

Krakow's own version of the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

This colorful and quirky set of pegasus sculptures celebrate the works of poet Zbigniew Herbert.

A somber memorial honors the hundreds of thousands of lives lost at this labor and extermination camp.

Inside this Krakow church, an explosion of psychedelic color.

This 13th century Gothic brick castle is the largest in the world by surface area.

The Polish capital has had a deep connection to its guardian mermaid for almost a millennium now.