This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.

The pockmarks across the building's facade are remnants of the Blitz.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

Formerly known as Saville Theatre, this mid-20th-century entertainment hub includes an ornate frieze.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

Named after a militant urban guerilla, this famous former squat is a graffiti-covered stronghold of leftist culture.

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

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

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

A plaque on the side of a building is a small tribute to the woman who invented an iconic Berlin fast food.

Dine at a legendary after-hours joint frequented by David Bowie and Iggy Pop.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.

An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.