Places Nour Wants to Go

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

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

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

Come stay at a live-in art installation.

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

A century-old shot ball factory tower is open to the public once a year.

The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.

Visitors can explore the role of mysticism throughout the ages inside this interactive museum of magic.

Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

Named after a militant urban guerilla, this famous former squat is a graffiti-covered stronghold of leftist culture.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.

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

Blitzkrieg bop your way through Berlin's Ramones Museum.