Berlin, Germany
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This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.
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Berlin, Germany
This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.
Berlin, Germany
This World War II bunker now survives as a documentation of the Nazi regime and war crimes.
Berlin, Germany
This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.
Berlin, Germany
Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.
Berlin, Germany
The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.
Berlin, Germany
Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.
Berlin, Germany
The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.
Berlin, Germany
A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.
Berlin, Germany
A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.
Berlin, Germany
What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.
Berlin, Germany
This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.
Berlin, Germany
A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.
Berlin, Germany
The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".
Berlin, Germany
The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.
Berlin, Germany
A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.
Berlin, Germany
A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.
Berlin, Germany
The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.
Paris, France
Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.
Paris, France
This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.
Paris, France
A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.
Paris, France
This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.
Paris, France
Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."
Paris, France
A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.
Paris, France
A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.