Once on display alongside a giant Gumby, it’s as tall as a nine-story building when fully extended.

These medicine cabinet staples are part of the museum's collection of everyday objects.

The world's third-largest crystal sphere has sat in the Penn Museum since 1927 with the exception of one outlandish theft.

Descendants of this colonial Pennsylvania family still travel from far and wide to visit the 300-year-old home of their Quaker ancestors.

This fascinating and poignant museum chronicles every imaginable aspect of Spanish colonialism in the Americas.

This enigmatic artifact is a rare depiction of an ancient Iberian noblewoman.

The remains of the second-oldest zoo in Europe can be seen within these library gardens.

An iconic and controversial ancient Iberian funerary urn with a hauntingly penetrating gaze.

Among the oldest structures in Madrid, these Moorish walls once guarded the medieval city of Mayrit.

The only urban monument in the world designed by the great surrealist painter Salvador Dalí.

Over two centuries old and counting, Madrid's massive botanical garden contains one of Europe's only desert environments.

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

Possibly the oldest church in Barcelona, this basilica has its pagan and Christian mythologies all mixed up.

A stately palace has been converted into the world's largest cannabis museum.

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

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

Mountain where Jesus was first tempted by the Devil.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

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

These secluded and abandoned anti-aircraft defenses have become one the most scenic viewpoints in Barcelona.

This little-known Revolutionary War fort is supposedly haunted by the ghosts of its past.

One of the oldest log cabins in America is one of the last of its kind this historic Swedish dwelling remains a piece of living history.

This jail which was in service for over a century is now open for curious visitors.

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.