Places Jim Dunn Wants to Go

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

From toys to kettles to scientific instruments, this German museum celebrates the beauty of 20th century design.

This little museum is making sure that the art and history of the graffiti sticker is not scraped from history.

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

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

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

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

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

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

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

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

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

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.