This former textile district now is now a thriving center for contemporary Chinese art.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

This probably wasn't what Mao had in mind.

The embalmed remains of the communist leader lie within a custom crystal coffin.

The bombed out remains of the old church were kept intact next to the new one, as a reminder of the futility of war.

A preserved block of timber buildings from the city's industrial era in the Middle Ages.

Preserved baths in a Victorian-era spa town frequented by the most famous people of its day.

The oldest public library in Ireland.

A statue in the center of Dublin dedicated to one of their favorite sons of rock & roll.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

A floundering Polish shipyard was once the soul of the Solidarity movement that capsized communism.

This antique thermometer honors the creator of the first universal temperature scale.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

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

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

Sweden's oldest animated sign is still lighting up the skyline today.

The remnants of a depressing public toilet are now a hub of ever evolving street art.

Be on the lookout for the symbolic insect all over the city.