American soldiers discovered Europe's best one-liner at the end of World War II.

A New York–based physician returned home to Spain to build his own elaborate monument to Christopher Columbus.

This quaint Spanish village agreed to be painted blue as a marketing stunt but found that they preferred it that way.

Spend the night inside a two-story elephant villa.

A Bohemian "anti-hotel" offers off-kilter stays in Sri Lanka.

One of the few places where inexperienced snorkelers can spot a shark.

This mesmerizing architectural wonder will take your breath away with its unusual color patterns.

An ancient stone fortress considered by many to be the eighth wonder of the world.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.

Marvel at the opulent Art Nouveau interior while dining on dirt-cheap French classics.

One of Jeff Koons’s largest sculptures and his first commemorative work.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

Morocco's largest Jewish cemetery.

This sanctuary is home to donkeys who finally get to rest after a life of toil.

This vast masterpiece of Moroccan architecture spreads across 20 acres.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

The largest cactus farm in Africa.