Everything from miniature biblical scenes to life-sized statues are almond-based at this sweet and nutty gallery.

Hungarian Jews were ghettoized during the Second World War, but little remains of the original wall that closed the Jewish people off from the rest of the city.

How did an Australian statue of the Bard of Avon end up in the Hungarian capital?

A stone woman in a stylized dress honors a courageous politician.

Dine on Hungarian-Jewish dishes at this multigenerational, family-run institution.

A scene from one of Hungary's most famous novels.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

This small exhibition displays equipment and artifacts once belonging to the feared Stasi secret police.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

For patriotic Russians, this memorial honoring the Soviet soldiers who died liberating Berlin in 1945 is the most sacred location outside of Russia.

Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.

This World War II bunker now survives as a documentation of the Nazi regime and war crimes.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

A bloody history is captured in this former prison turned museum.

An ancient sanctuary that has long been a holy site for the Chaldean Christian Church.

The sacred shrine of the Yazidis.

An ancient fortified mound raised over the millennia from settlements built one on top of the other.

Qshla Koya is an Ottoman fortress located on a hillock in the central quarter of Koya.

A grotesque collection of wax limbs depicting the symptoms of venereal disease.

Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.

Heralded as the world's first theater, these ruins are often overlooked as they reside in the shadows of the Acropolis.

A sharp sculpture made of thousands of pieces of jagged glass.