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The beautiful, ornate weather station is the most popular geocache in Salzburg.

Mozart's skull may be held in this collection, but definitive proof continues to elude scientists.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

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

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

David Robert Jones was a Berliner — from 1976–1978

The 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" lends its name to a subway station, a street, and several shops on the edge of Berlin.

A haunting contrast of trains that both saved and took the lives of Jewish children in Nazi Germany.

This platform is now a memorial dedicated to those who were deported during the Holocaust.

This watchtower once presided over the Berlin Wall.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

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

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

Sleep beneath the big screen at this old-school movie theater.

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.