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

This chapel on a cliff is renowned for its healing powers and was founded on the site of a supposed divine intervention.

Unparalleled stargazing, one of Colombia's best observatories, and a swimming pool can all be found in the middle of this ancient tropical forest.

The other side is actually green.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A park with one large cat sculpture and 15 smaller ones, all painted by different Colombian artists.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

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

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.