A neighborhood church's unusual abstract stained glass was the final project of avant-garde artist Jean Cocteau.

The former home of Ernst Jünger, an eccentric German novelist, philosopher, entomologist, and psychonaut.

Wandering this ancient burial place offers a glimpse of the afterlife in the fresco-adorned tombs of an ancient Etruscan civilization.

The elegant structure of this 19th century railroad bridge creates an illusion of infinity.

This historic home of the author of Lawrence of Arabia, has a history of literary celebrities and monogrammed sleeping bags.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

This famous writer's tombstone is a literary pilgrimage site that was publicly defiled by a rival.

At this beautifully preserved Pre-Hispanic site, you can see ancient petroglyphs with depictions of llamas and alpacas.

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

This mystical orb covered in strange symbols is thought to have been used in ancient Greek magical rituals.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.

The sign at the garden gate reads: "These Plants Can Kill."

A hidden bas-relief of a hare on a church main portal that brings good luck to the ones who find it.

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

Five painted skeletons are hiding behind a church in this tiny village in the Italian Alps.

Before it was buried by volcanic ash, this fast-food restaurant fed the hungry hordes of ancient Rome.

A remarkable cabinet of curiosities in an art space in the center of Berlin.

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

This curious sculpture represents the perseverance needed to take to the skies.

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

This World War II bunker now survives as a documentation of the Nazi regime and war crimes.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.