Site of the first radio and telephone broadcasting companies in Copenhagen.

An early 20th-century bullring converted into a modern shopping center.

Time stands still at this serene burial ground in the center of Budapest.

Nine bronze hands protruding from a wall honor the student uprising that led to the fall of Czechoslovakia's Communist government.

The biblical sculpture honors those who lost their lives, homes and communities to the Chernobyl disaster.

The first modernist church in Europe.

Also known as the Blue Church, the building was consecrated to the daughter of Andrew II.

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

This enormous abstract sculpture is part jungle gym, part elaborate noise-making machine.

This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.

The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

Some Moscow residents once claimed the bizarre, contorted mass of metal on top of the building was used to manipulate minds.

Gargantuan home of Russian science.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

This newly renovated Soviet-era outdoor exhibition center is bigger than the principality of Monaco.

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

Dozens of padlock-trees along the Moscow River.