The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.

Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.

Berlin's old airport.

A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

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

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

This futuristic German television spire is actually the world's largest digital clock.

This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

Neighborhood in Jerusalem is home to the ultra-orthodox haredim.

Sitting right on the border between East and West Jerusalem this modern art museum is in itself a symbol of Israel's hoped-for unity.

Descend 2,030 years into the past in an ancient tunnel built to support Jerusalem's most famous wall.

The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

Opulence and fantasy collide in this royal chair which is supposedly made with unicorn horns.

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

Five million people are laid to rest here, more than the population of Madrid itself.

This small Key West museum is packed with dozens of artifacts that illustrate the life of the iconic playwright.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.