Rome, Italy
The Protestant Cemetery
The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.
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Rome, Italy
The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.
Paris, France
An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.
Paris, France
A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.
Paris, France
This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.
Paris, France
This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.
Paris, France
A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.
Paris, France
Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.
Paris, France
A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.
Paris, France
Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.
Paris, France
Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.
Paris, France
Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.
Paris, France
A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.
Paris, France
A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.
Paris, France
Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.
Paris, France
A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.
Paris, France
The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.
Paris, France
High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.
Paris, France
Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Berlin, Germany
Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.
Berlin, Germany
A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.
Berlin, Germany
Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.
Berlin, Germany
From Iggy Pop to David Bowie to Nick Cave, this regal music studio has served some of the all time greats.
Berlin, Germany
Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.