The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

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

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

Europe's first floating restaurant is home to a hilarious legend.

Go inside a revolutionary, cage-less zoo where 35 species live and some of them roam free alongside their human visitors.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

According to tradition this is the oldest church in Venice, but its actual age is a mystery.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

A rare specimen of an iconic extinct animal in downtown Sydney.

The bones of this aquatic dinosaur turned to opal over the centuries and the beast's remains were almost sold as jewelry.

A small, but award-winning beach known for its literally spotless reputation.

A colorful street named for the legendary Australian rock band.

Home to the oldest operating roller coaster in the Southern Hemisphere.

This 23-foot-tall bear stands amid the hustle and bustle of Hamad International Airport.