A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

Berliners converted a bombed-out, disused lot into a community-run urban farm with its own cafe and bar.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

These stairs feature the names of Zemun's most famous faces.

Giant wind turbine with observation deck at the very top.

A magical museum of fairy tale treasures near Cyprus' buffer zone.

A unique art center and shop just below a United Nations Checkpoint in central Nicosia.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

A Parisian boutique devoted to la Sape, the elegant Congolese fashion subculture rooted in European colonization.

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

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