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A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

This charming, hidden guild museum holds some 700 years of crossbow history.

Head underground and take a tour of the city's working sewer system, and see the underground river Senne, which defined Brussels for centuries before being covered in the 19th century.

This collection of over 50 murals celebrates Brussels' rich history as the self-proclaimed home of the "comic strip."

Fall down the rabbit hole into a surreal journey of human consciousness "from ass to soul."

The 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" lends its name to a subway station, a street, and several shops on the edge of Berlin.

This curious sculpture represents the perseverance needed to take to the skies.

A portable, wooden replica (minus the hyphen) of Hamburg’s iconic crooked coffee shop.

Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.

These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter.

From Iggy Pop to David Bowie to Nick Cave, this regal music studio has served some of the all time greats.

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

Berlin's old airport.

Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.

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

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

Madrid's last horchata kiosk is a blue-and-white beacon of refreshment.

The remains of the second-oldest zoo in Europe can be seen within these library gardens.

An iconic and controversial ancient Iberian funerary urn with a hauntingly penetrating gaze.