The cross-shaped memorial is filled with kitschy tributes to the late pop star.

This fortress dates back to the 6th century and is also the site of a controversial abandoned restoration project.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster.

This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.

Every half hour the eye-rolling clock face sticks out its tongue to mock the good citizens of Koblenz.

Tiny castle in the middle of the Rhine made you pay to pass.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

This historic funicular system combines the old with the new while offering delightful views over the surrounding valley.

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

This strange sculpture depicts a giant nightmare hare crushing a man to death beneath its colossal bulk.

A museum that chronicles the history of the Nuremberg Trials for Nazi war criminals in the building where the trials were once held.

An ornate sculpture of an ox in repose marks the former entrance to Nuremberg's medieval meat market, which was destroyed during World War II.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

This historic toy museum brings a little whimsy to a city not usually remembered for such things.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

A Red Cross memorial museum at the site of the Niš concentration camp that operated for four eventful years during World War II.

Structure built from the skulls of vanquished foes.

A Serbian church lit by chandeliers made of weapons.

Bronzes and busts that once stood in the city's main squares are now relegated to a small hidden courtyard.

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.