A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

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

This renovated Art Nouveau bathroom from 1905 is worth the price of admission.

After immigrating to Paris in the 1970s, two brothers from Laos built a grocery store empire.

Peruse produce from Senegal, Cameroon, and other West African nations at this sprawling market.

Travel back in time at a Moroccan-inspired restaurant that was the height of glamor in the 1970s.

Offal and flawless onion soup are on the menu at this restaurant that once catered to the workers of Les Halles.

This Algerian sweet shop serves confections in an eye-popping array of hues.

Fully loaded, Tunisian-style sandwiches are on the menu at this unassuming hole-in-the-wall.

Shop at the 200-year-old store where Julia Child stocked up on copper cookware.

Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.

For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.

The oldest continuously operating mint in the world that has been making coins since the 9th-century.

Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

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

This lesser-known Frank Gehry building houses a treasure trove of cinema history.

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 industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

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

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

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