The building is a gigantic piece of art inspired by the shape of a desert rose.

The world's largest frame offers spectacular views of the city's past and present.

On any given day this sprawling market houses literally tons of government-regulated gold, gems, and precious metals.

Billed as the "largest natural flower garden in the world" this Middle Eastern show field has little competition at 45 million flowers.

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

On this romantic tidal island reachable only at low tide the tomb of a famous French writer overlooks the sea.

A place to see how French aristocrats lived in the early 1900s.

This mountain trail inspired Nietzsche to complete his magnum opus.

The opulent home that inspired Tintin's Marlinspike Hall and the adventures within.

An Orthodox church built by the Royal Family for the Russian community exiled to the French Riviera.

Hundreds of secret cabinets built into the walls of legendary poisoner's private work room.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A museum that chronicles the history of the Nuremberg Trials for Nazi war criminals in the building where the trials were once held.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.