Created for the Curious

Shanghai

Even as China's finance hub speeds into the future, tradition persists in its narrow lanes

Paris

The City of Light has always drawn big thinkers: writers, revolutionaries, green pioneers

Tokyo

Only in Japan's capital are robots welcomed with the same enthusiam as spring's blossoms

Madrid

Austin

The motto "Keep Austin Weird" sums up the home of live music, Tex-Mex and 1.5 million bats

London

Curious skyscrapers, Brutalist blocks and Medieval relics jostle for space in London town

Florence

Melbourne

Los Angeles

From Venice Beach to the Hollywood Hills, there's more to LA than celebrity and brunch

San Francisco

On the hills above the Bay, hippies and yuppies vie for space – and their city's identity

Berlin

Bright, bold ideas and a hunger for all things new fuel Germany's free-living capital

New York City

With the world in five boroughs, it's easy to be wide-eyed in the City That Never Sleeps

Barcelona

Hong Kong

Chinese, British and indigenous influences fuse in a neon-lit metropolis unlike any other

Venice

Dublin

Beijing

Symbols of an imperial past and monuments to a high-tech future collide in China's capital

Milan

Sydney

Edinburgh