The 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" lends its name to a subway station, a street, and several shops on the edge of Berlin.

A beer pipeline runs beneath Bruges.

Explore 400,000 years of humans' "battle against darkness" in this offbeat but thorough lamp museum.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.