From toys to kettles to scientific instruments, this German museum celebrates the beauty of 20th century design.

This World War II bunker now survives as a documentation of the Nazi regime and war crimes.

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

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

Art and a pun, all in one.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

This small island, a byproduct of 19th-century canal construction, is now home to a charming Japanese garden.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

This hidden garden boasts amazing views of Lyon.

Antique cinematography artifacts fill this museum dedicated to the inventors of the moving picture.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.