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

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

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

The oldest continuously operating mint in the world that has been making coins since the 9th-century.

During the summer months, giant teddy bears take over Paris near Les Gobelins metro station.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Lebanese castle built by one man, over a lifetime.