Inside features a display of how artistic crucifixes transformed throughout the centuries.

Next to the Leaning Tower of Pisa is a cemetery home to ancient sarcophagi and disturbing murals.

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

Anatomical cabinet holds unexpected treasures.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

Lady Liberty's original designer installed a little clone in this French fountain.

A very uncommon water tank standing in the middle of the grapevines in Bordeaux nearly a century after its construction.

These 2000 year old remains of a Roman aqueduct are hidden inside a hotel lobby.

This store decorated with Japanese and underground pop culture items has been the centre of Barcelona alternative fashion scenes for more than a decade.

Saint Joseph was said to heal the deaf and blind, but it was a much smaller miracle that got him canonized.

This generously endowed statue once stood guard outside a Roman home.

A bookstore dedicated to the intersection of comedy and art.

Barça football fans might see the insignia hidden in a church window as a divine sign.

This colorful statue welcomes visitors to a Barcelona park.

On the wall of this medieval walkway, a symbol of the Spanish Inquisition.

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

An eclectic collection of thousands of items owned by the sculptor Frederic Marès.

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

For one day every month Barcelona's Estació de França transforms into a market for model trains.

An early 20th-century bullring converted into a modern shopping center.

This home designed for chocolate magnate Antoni Amatller is an exquisite treasure-box of Catalan Modernism.

Barcelona's only remaining tram system takes riders to the Tibidabo funicular.

The former 1920s mansion of a prominent Catalan developer was used as the Soviet Embassy during the Spanish Civil War, and there is still a bunker below the garden.

This stunning iron gate designed by Modernist architect Antoni Gaudí is filled with mythic symbolism.