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A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

The remains of the medieval wall that once surrounded Paris with ties to the construction of the Louvre.

Shop at the 200-year-old store where Julia Child stocked up on copper cookware.

The French leader's hat sits in a glass case at the oldest restaurant in Paris.

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

The narrowest street in Paris.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

For patriotic Russians, this memorial honoring the Soviet soldiers who died liberating Berlin in 1945 is the most sacred location outside of Russia.

A small hippo-shaped fountain in Berlin, Germany.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

The best bagels in Berlin are tucked away in an independent bookstore.

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

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

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