Berlin, Germany
Café Strauss
Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.
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Berlin, Germany
Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.
Paris, France
The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.
Paris, France
A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.
Paris, France
This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.
Geneva, Illinois
This carved armchair marks the final resting place for two pals in the Chicago suburbs.
Chicago, Illinois
A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.
Chicago, Illinois
An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.
Chicago, Illinois
A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.
Boston, Massachusetts
This headstone marks the grave of an 11-year-old boy killed during clashes in the streets over the boycotting of British goods.
Boston, Massachusetts
Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.
Boston, Massachusetts
These items are all that remain from the room used by the author during his second tour of the U.S.
Chicago, Illinois
This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.
Brooklyn, New York
A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.
Brooklyn, New York
This recipe is set in stone.
Aigues-Mortes, France
This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.
Chamonix, France
An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.
Oradour-sur-Glane, France
This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.
Paris, France
A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.
Paris, France
A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.
Paris, France
Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.
Paris, France
Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.
Paris, France
Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.
Paris, France
This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.
Paris, France
Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.