Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

Part of the medieval watchtower is displayed in an otherwise ordinary parking garage.

A whimsical brother of the nearby Fallen Angel statue takes the falling part quite literally.

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

Miles of man-made caves and tunnels are currently used for cultivating mushrooms.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

This ancient rock painting is the oldest evidence of humans’ love affair with honey.

This 14th century wine cellar is home to the oldest barrel-stored wine in the world.

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

For those late-night mollusk cravings.

A cluster of granite granaries perched on stilts.

A network of hundreds of interconnected wineries in caves hides under the town center.

The deserted pirate-themed restaurant still entices explorers.

A complimentary beverage is offered to the bodega's resident rodents every day.

This whimsical winery by Antoni Gaudí looks ripped from the pages of a fairytale.

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.

The extensive relics of an ancient Roman and Phoenician fish processing plant hide in a town park.

Continental Europe's only museum devoted to salt and pepper shakers features more than 20,000 designs.

The largest salt farm in the Canary Islands is located at the foot of an active volcano.

This cafe offers a curated collection of treats and tipples made by monks and nuns.

This surreal-looking tree pruned more than 1,000 years ago is still producing olives for oil.