Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

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

Berlin's old airport.

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

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

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

What if all public housing projects had been designed by "the Pygmalion of modern architecture," not only their prototype?

"Drunken ship" sculpture memorializing the French poet in the city where he died.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

England's most notorious suicide spot.

These stark white cliffs were spat up by the sea and are slowly being retaken by it.

Half-drowned wooden stumps and stone blocks are all that remain of a Victorian landing that was destroyed by storms.

Both church and state get put to the torch in this annual festival in the "Bonfire Capital of the World."

This tiny 1930s Art Deco airport is a beautiful remnant of a bygone era.

A motley, fantastical agglomeration of unlikely houseboats along the Shoreham-by-Sea riverbank.

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

This craggy boulder is fabled to be either a druidic relic or Satan's stumbling block.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.