The site where a plot to assassinate Hitler was planned—and its conspirators were executed—is now a powerful memorial to the German resistance during World War II.

Art installations, derelict railcars, and endangered grasshoppers all call this south Berlin park home.

This platform is now a memorial dedicated to those who were deported during the Holocaust.

Once a path for Jewish funeral processions, this unassuming alleyway is rich in local lore.

Antique frame collection with 2,400 frames.

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

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

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

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

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

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.