Manchester salvaged this sculpture of the adopted Mancunian when it was no longer wanted in Ukraine.

Have a seat with the father of modern computing at this Manchester monument.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

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

The “Coin Cabinet of Dresden” houses a collection of over 300,000 numismatic artifacts, one of the largest of its kind in Europe.

Tourists often confuse this beautifully ornate former cigarette factory for a mosque.

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

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

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

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

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.