Created for the Curious

Paris

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

Edinburgh

Austin

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

Milan

Florence

London

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

Beijing

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

Prague

Baroque architecture, Bohemian art and Czech beer await in the City of a Hundred Spires

Berlin

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

Shanghai

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

Dublin

San Francisco

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

Los Angeles

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

Hong Kong

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

Sydney

Barcelona

Melbourne

Madrid

Venice

Tokyo

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