This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

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

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

This monument to those fallen in the World Wars is accompanied by a U-boat that Germany bought for a Deutsche Mark.

The world's first and only three-segment bascule bridge folds up into the shape of a capital "N" to let boat traffic through.

One of the last remaining railway viaducts equipped with a transporter ferry.

The original home of the Lego has a huge amusement park dedicated to the iconic plastic toy.

This strategic isle was once swapped between empires and almost entirely destroyed in a bomb explosion.

Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.