Ornamented with "Bristol Diamonds," this exotic shell grotto is considered to be the finest surviving example from the eighteenth century.

When a supermarket opened up shop within a medieval building it became protected by UNESCO on a technicality.

A unique interactive experience of everyday life in communist Yugoslavia—a very different time in Croatian history.

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

Concerts, art, offices, and a café in what used to be Berlin's first crematorium.

Taste freshly foraged yarrow and black locust blossoms at this ambitious cocktail bar.

A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.

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

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

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

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

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.