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Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

The grand triumphs and bloody tragedies of the French Revolution all trace their way back to this unassuming tennis court.

When the water level in the Danube in central Budapest is low enough, there is a secret site telling the history of one of the most iconic bridges of the city.

A cocktail lounge decorated like an American dive bar, in honor of the legendary author Ernest Hemingway.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

A 13th-century convent where St. Margaret of Hungary spent her teenage years.

Hungarian Jews were ghettoized during the Second World War, but little remains of the original wall that closed the Jewish people off from the rest of the city.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

800 apricot trees honor Silicon Valley's agricultural history.

This tri-part waterfall is a little bit of fairytale beauty in the heart of Luxembourg's Little Switzerland.

This hidden art nouveau gem was designed by an architect in search of a national style.

A forgotten Art Deco department store in central Budapest, where faded socialist-era retail grandeur meets the haunting beauty of urban decay.

The romantic garden was the epicenter of the Hungarian art scene in the 1880s.

A monumental palace that began as a stock exchange, became the headquarters of Hungarian Television, and spent years largely unused.

The last remaining example of a painted house from the medieval period in Nice.

The patron of this extravagant Art Nouveau confection insisted that nothing less than a boat should project from its facade.

The oldest cemetery in Belgium.

Nestled among towering redwoods on Skyline Boulevard, the Mountain House combines over a century of California history with a warm, rustic atmosphere that makes every meal feel like a getaway.

Three floors of musical instruments coming from all corners of the world and hundreds of years of musical history.

This figure was carved in the likeness of a voyeur, so that every time he spied across the street, he would find only himself staring back.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

The Underground railway station and its Cubist/Art Deco statue are so evocative of 1920s/30s London that one almost expects to see Poirot on the stairs.