Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Elaborate tile work in this railway station tells the story of Portugal.

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

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

Perfume museum and library.

In a city that boasts four separate inclined cable railways, this is one of the busiest funicular lines in the world.

A dead saint, a deadly poison, and a mysterious holy ooze.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

The middle finger of modernity.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

The "punniest place on Earth” has nearly as many bull-themed puns as it does people.

Taihape's claim to fame is a fictional Kiwi farmer wearing gumboots.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

These two delightful animal-shaped buildings host a visitor center and wool shop.