Giant cauldrons overflow with Uzbekistan's favorite rice dish at this cavernous dining hall.

Some of the greatest minds in the history of Hungarian art and science converged in this café.

Central Europe's largest collection of mini-bottles is on display at this museum devoted to a bitter Hungarian liquor.

A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

Blitzkrieg bop your way through Berlin's Ramones Museum.

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

A medical facility that has been kept frozen in time.

The oldest house in Chicago certainly doesn't look the part and there are some who say it doesn't deserve its title either.

An eccentric park and pool.

A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

The gilded, masterful astronomical clock will calculate time, dates, and planetary positions for thousands of years to come.