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

When Azorean green tea meets volcanic hot springs water, a luminous brew is born.

Building owners can take out tiles for free at this repository for historic building materials.

You can cross from one country to another in a single hop on this little bridge.

Men in rubber-soled boots serve as your "brakes" on this toboggan ride Hemingway described as "exhilarating."

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.

The mysterious remains of a martyred teenage saint are venerated inside a small country chapel.

This enormous censer uses a pulley system installed over 400 years ago.

An accidental trick of light casts the perfect shadow of a pilgrim of the Camino de Santiago against the cathedral wall.

A detailed 1:32 scale model of Scandinavia's largest telescope.

A pastry shop specializing in Sephardic sweets serves historic recipes in Ribadavia’s Jewish quarter.

Occupied for six centuries by Franciscan Order nuns, this monastery is an amazing ode to Catalán Gothic architecture.

Thanks to an acoustic anomaly, this unassuming stone bench has heard one hundred years of secrets.

This "flat geyser" bubbles up out of the ground periodically like a disappearing river.

18th century anatomical amphitheater of the Royal College of Surgery of Barcelona.