How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

This historic funicular system combines the old with the new while offering delightful views over the surrounding valley.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

After a nearly successful attempt on Hitler's life, the conspirators met their fate in the courtyard of this Berlin building.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

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

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

Berlin's old airport.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

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

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

Art and a pun, all in one.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

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

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.