A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

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

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

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

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

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

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

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.

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

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

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

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

A peculiar samurai statue overlooks the center of Brno.

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

This crumbling medieval basilica once attracted pilgrims by the thousands to collect a miraculous dust that formed above the saint's tomb.

Carvings in Turkey's Marble Road may have directed ancient Romans to a hidden brothel.

The alleged house of the Virgin Mary is tucked away in a park and nature preserve on Mt. Koressos in Turkey and is holy to both Catholics and Muslims alike.

A charming beach town in Turkey captures all the colors of the rainbow.

In the center of Wrocław's old meat market stands a somber tribute to the city's livestock.

A 90-ton, gravity-defiant steam locomotive shoots for the skies in this bizarrely beautiful public artwork.

The silly symbol for an underground protest group is now scattered around the city.