This ancient market is often referred to as the oldest shopping mall in the world.

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

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

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

Construction of Barcelona's iconic (but controversial) church is expected to be completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

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

A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.

A temple to modernity, tucked away amid Barcelona's more well known museums.

Turntable anonymously received orphans, alms, and groceries.

A beautiful little museum hidden away in the heart of Barcelona holds a treasure trove of Ancient Egyptian artifacts

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.

A Byzantine-era church hidden in a wooded area below the Acropolis.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

This cuddly rodent has a place of honor at a Russian institute for genetic research.

Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.

A Buddhist shrine in a cave protected by macaques next to dark passages lined with creepy paintings.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

Two gushing waterfalls of hot spring water within a block of each other.

There are no bodies inside these stone coffins. And there never were.

One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.