Graffiti

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

An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

A local landmark with generations of spraypainted messages, and more being added each day.

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

Room 32 of the Alta Cienega Motel has grown into a shrine to the Lizard King.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.

This poor little statue is the most vandalized memorial in Washington.

The streets of a sleepy Spanish town proudly exhibit some of the world's finest graffiti.

“The oddest pub in South Africa,” inspired by a practical joke.

This painted Lego bridge is the product of over a century of locomotive history.

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

Graffiti covers the walls of a room where university students through the centuries have waited nervously to defend their theses.