Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

This historic pink parlor keeps Phoenicians cool with homemade, retro ice creams.

This Oaxacan town is known for its colorful fantastical creatures hand-carved by local artisans.

Mosaics created from 11 million cigar bands.

The taxidermy remains of the first brown bear to enter Germany in 170 years.

A cake-themed art installation tucked away in historic Chinatown.

A Cuban artist reclaimed his impoverished neighborhood as a dreamy folk art kingdom.

The verdant mossy ruins of a Franciscan monastery lie in the remote Sintra hills awaiting exploration.

For decades, vendors have sold clothes once worn by American soldiers who stormed Italy in the 1940s.

A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.

Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.

Avant garde house of Pierre Cardin on the Cote d’Azur.

A complimentary beverage is offered to the bodega's resident rodents every day.

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

This small corner bar is home to a rare 1930s dance organ that still plays tunes for one Euro.

The patron of this extravagant Art Nouveau confection insisted that nothing less than a boat should project from its facade.

This statue dedicated to the story of a Flemish boy and his dog was relatively obscure in Belgium, but a cult sensation in Japan.

Theme park featuring miniature replicas of European monuments.

Colorful and chaotic stacked hotel in North Holland.

A mosaic-tiled house built by graveyard sweeper Raymond Isidore.

An eccentric artist's abode in this small Italian town has been transformed into a surreal temple of mosaic madness.

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.