Nice, France
Grave of Emil Jelinek-Mercedes
This ornate neo-Gothic mausoleum honors the man behind the Mercedes name—and the daughter who inspired it.
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Nice, France
This ornate neo-Gothic mausoleum honors the man behind the Mercedes name—and the daughter who inspired it.
Berlin, Germany
A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.
Bad Schandau, Germany
An ornate century-old elevator still connects the two halves of Bad Schandau.
Schönefeld, Germany
This curious sculpture represents the perseverance needed to take to the skies.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Walk inside a half mile long crevice right outside the town of Garmisch Partenkirchen.
Berlin, Germany
A towering monument to war, located on a beautifully peaceful hill.
Potsdam, Germany
The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.
Berlin, Germany
One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.
Berlin, Germany
The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.
Berlin, Germany
A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.
Berlin, Germany
Taste freshly foraged yarrow and black locust blossoms at this ambitious cocktail bar.
Bernkastel-Kues, Germany
This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.
Berlin, Germany
The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.
Munich, Germany
Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.
Lohmen, Germany
Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.
Berlin, Germany
Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.
Berlin, Germany
Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.
Zagreb, Croatia
This 135-year-old weather station studied the effects of the climate on human health.
Leffrinckoucke, France
These crumbling Nazi artillery bunkers are now fair game for massive graffiti projects.
London, England
Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.
London, England
The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.
London, England
The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.
London, England
Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.
London, England
A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.