Turntable anonymously received orphans, alms, and groceries.

The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.

Week-long block party becomes a competition for the best decorated street.

Bask in the 19th century grandeur of an eccentric Freemason millionaire's private gardens.

Step inside the first house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, considered to be one of the first Art Nouveau buildings.

Mountain where Jesus was first tempted by the Devil.

An unusual stroll through gentlemen's erotica demonstrates that pornography is timeless.

Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

Dolls of all shapes and sizes display the eras of femininity in this spooky and beautiful collection.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

During the summer months, giant teddy bears take over Paris near Les Gobelins metro station.

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

Tens of thousands of tiny bottles stuffed with various items.

The non-native bovine herd was brought in to help conserve these Berlin wetlands.

The 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" lends its name to a subway station, a street, and several shops on the edge of Berlin.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.