London, England
Cleopatra's Needle Shrapnel Scars
This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
London, England
Seven Noses of Soho
Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.
London, England
London's Lilliputian Police Station
London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.
London, England
The Monty Python Foot
The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.
London, England
Odeon Covent Garden
Formerly known as Saville Theatre, this mid-20th-century entertainment hub includes an ornate frieze.
London, England
Broad Street Cholera Pump
The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.
Berlin, Germany
Georg-von-Rauch-Haus
Named after a militant urban guerilla, this famous former squat is a graffiti-covered stronghold of leftist culture.
Berlin, Germany
'The Dance of Death'
At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.
Berlin, Germany
Marx and Engels Forum
One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.
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Berlin, Germany
AquaDom
The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.
Berlin, Germany
The DDR Museum
A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.
Berlin, Germany
Burgermeister
Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.
Berlin, Germany
Vestiges of the Berlin Wall
On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.
Berlin, Germany
Herta Heuwer Currywurst Memorial
A plaque on the side of a building is a small tribute to the woman who invented an iconic Berlin fast food.
Berlin, Germany
Schwarzes Café
Dine at a legendary after-hours joint frequented by David Bowie and Iggy Pop.
Berlin, Germany
Bahnhof Berlin Zoologischer Garten
Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.
Berlin, Germany
Mengenlehreuhr (Berlin Clock)
The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.
Berlin, Germany
'Stand By Me' Tree
Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.
Berlin, Germany
Old City Wall of Berlin
The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.
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Berlin, Germany
Arthouse Tacheles
An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.
Berlin, Germany
Tieranatomisches Theater
Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.
Berlin, Germany
Liquidrom
This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.
Berlin, Germany
Hohenzollern Crypt in the Berlin Cathedral
Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.
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London, England
The Buried Remains of Little Compton Street
The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.
