A colorful piece of contemporary art cheerfully clashes with Lyon's historical architecture.

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

Inside this museum, Christians were imprisoned when the Romans controlled Gaul.

Lyon's "Wall of the Silk Weavers" is one of the largest murals in Europe.

Explore the 500-year history of silk-making in Lyon at this museum, workshop, and boutique.

Lyon's miniature version of the Eiffel Tower was built as a statement in support of French secularism.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

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

This 18th-century folly is one of Europe's rare "garden mosques."

A charming and enigmatic sculpture of a lynx haunts the park of Kellinghusen.

A fascinating little museum dedicated to the thousands of chemical substances concealed in our food.

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

Inside this Jewish cemetery is a memorial to soldiers who deserted the German army and were executed.

Once a path for Jewish funeral processions, this unassuming alleyway is rich in local lore.

Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.

This watchtower once presided over the Berlin Wall.

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

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

This museum is home to a sugar sculpture of the Berlin Airlift Memorial.

To the great disappointment of doomsdayers, this codex merely contains records of the Moon and Venus.

A moving and macabre World War I-era painting by the great artist Otto Dix.

Joe Cocker's 1988 concert at this site in East Germany marked a changing sea tide that would eventually lead to reunification.