Catalonia Tradition: Beating the hollow Christmas log until it defecates in your fireplace.

Turntable anonymously received orphans, alms, and groceries.

A bookstore dedicated to the intersection of comedy and art.

One of the most photographed buildings in a city known for its Modernista architecture is an abandoned squat.

An early 20th-century bullring converted into a modern shopping center.

This colorful statue welcomes visitors to a Barcelona park.

A former steam-powered mill from the 1800s is now an industrial park with a giant steel dragon slide.

This amazing piece of modern art honors the hundreds of fishermen killed during Cambrils' "year of misfortunes."

An isolated village literally built into the crevices and rock formations of a mountain.

A breathtaking canyon offers stunning views and frightful pathways through an ecological paradise.

Mine shafts and hard pastries await visitors at this massive mountain of salt.

This ancient Spanish castle sits high upon a hilltop.

A long strip of fossil-filled limestone makes up this natural bridge above a rushing stream.

Holy Grotto of Montserrat Monastery holds one of Europe's mysterious black Madonnas.

The Kenyan town where the best distance runners in the world are trained.

Drink and dine in a coral cave that's at least 120,000 years old.

Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

A museum dedicated to secret surveillance.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

A grand Wetherspoon pub set in a former opera house dating back to 1902.

Europe's "only museum dedicated to the decapod" is full of quirky and absurdist displays, including one featuring the "famous" Giant Crab of Margate.

Overlooking the seaside town of Margate stands a tribute to an artist's lover.