Places Archaos Wants to Go

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

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

This watchtower once presided over the Berlin Wall.

Berliners converted a bombed-out, disused lot into a community-run urban farm with its own cafe and bar.

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

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

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

The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."

This large, circular tomb is the final resting place of the first emperor of Rome.

How did a lighthouse wind up in the middle of this landlocked German city?

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

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

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

Dutch woodpile home in the forest.

A monument hidden in the woods built in 1938 as a getaway for a Dutch museum curator.

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.