A fountain standing as a testament to a doomed alliance.

A gorgeous, Gaudí-esque stairway constructed in the city of Istanbul by a prominent Jewish family.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

The world's oldest map of the holy land gives us a fragmented glimpse of the layout of biblical nations.

This cascade of mineral-rich hot springs and waterfalls is an oasis in the Jordanian desert.

Concentrated around the Dead Sea, these surprising canyons are filled with coursing water, fish, and even crabs.

This concrete residential area doubles as an open-air gallery.

A portable, wooden replica (minus the hyphen) of Hamburg’s iconic crooked coffee shop.

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

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

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

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

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

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

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