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

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

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

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

A small hippo-shaped fountain in Berlin, Germany.

After fleeing the Syrian civil war, chef Malakeh Jazmati began serving exceptional renditions of her homeland's cuisine in Berlin.

Superb sweets await at the first Jewish bakery inducted into Berlin’s prestigious baker’s guild.

The best bagels in Berlin are tucked away in an independent bookstore.

Art installations, derelict railcars, and endangered grasshoppers all call this south Berlin park home.

The non-native bovine herd was brought in to help conserve these Berlin wetlands.

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

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

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

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

Art and a pun, all in one.

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

This unique architectural wonder is also tied to one of the 20th-century's most renowned writers.

The extravagance of Portugal’s "Pink Palace" resulted in a noble title being awarded to its owner.

Men in rubber-soled boots serve as your "brakes" on this toboggan ride Hemingway described as "exhilarating."