Berlin, Germany
Stasi Museum
A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.
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Berlin, Germany
A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.
Berlin, Germany
A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.
Berlin, Germany
The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.
Berlin, Germany
Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.
Berlin, Germany
A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.
Berlin, Germany
A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.
Berlin, Germany
An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.
Berlin, Germany
This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.
Hayakawa, Japan
The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.
Paris, France
A giant silver apple a day keeps the perils of capitalism away.
Paris, France
A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.
Paris, France
Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.
Paris, France
Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.
Paris, France
Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.
Paris, France
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.
Paris, France
A Belle Epoque bordello turned into a themed love hotel.
Paris, France
One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.
Paris, France
A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.
Paris, France
The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.
Paris, France
This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.
Paris, France
This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.
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
A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.
Paris, France
Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.