A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.

Taste freshly foraged yarrow and black locust blossoms at this ambitious cocktail bar.

The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.

The non-native bovine herd was brought in to help conserve these Berlin wetlands.

This concrete residential area doubles as an open-air gallery.

A plaque marks the former home of Käthe Paulus, an aerial acrobat who invented the modern folding parachute.

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

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.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

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

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

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

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

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