A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

Berlin's old airport.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

Located in Nairobi National Park, this animal orphanage is the oldest of its kind in Kenya.

Farm-to-table East African-European cuisine is on the menu here.

This urban park is home to monkeys and a number of endangered plants.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

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

Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

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

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This giant statue is the product of a mixture of corruption, Stalinist architecture, and North Korean manpower.

From atop a hill at the center of Cape Town, a cannon has been signalling the time since 1806.