Barcelona, Spain
Park GĂĽell
GaudĂ's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.
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Barcelona, Spain
GaudĂ's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.
Barcelona, Spain
The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.
Barcelona, Spain
Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.
Barcelona, Spain
This home designed for chocolate magnate Antoni Amatller is an exquisite treasure-box of Catalan Modernism.
Barcelona, Spain
One of Antoni GaudĂ's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.
Barcelona, Spain
The iconic boulevard is the perfect place to catch sight of a bicycling skeleton, a levitating Satan, or a chef with his head stuck in a pizza.
Barcelona, Spain
One of Antoni GaudĂ’s earliest buildings, built between 1886 and 1890 for the industrialist Eusebi GĂĽell.
Barcelona, Spain
This colorful statue welcomes visitors to a Barcelona park.
Innsbruck, Austria
Archduke Ferdinand II's collection of rare objects is considered one of the oldest museums in the world.
Ljubljana, Slovenia
A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.
Ljubljana, Slovenia
A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.
Oswiecim, Poland
The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.
Vienna, Austria
Op-art architecture designed for happiness.
Turin, Italy
A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.
Turin, Italy
One of the oldest and most significant collections of Ancient Egyptian archeology outside of Egypt.
Turin, Italy
When this funny little building went up in the 19th century, most people thought it would simply fall over.
Turin, Italy
The intricate geometry inside this Baroque-style dome was designed to create "terror of the human soul."
Milan, Italy
One of the world’s smallest bars, just 13 square feet, is brimming with speakeasy flair.
Milan, Italy
Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.
Milan, Italy
The secret medieval communication system will whisk your words above the noise of the crowd.
Milan, Italy
Artistic tombs, monuments, and a beautiful "Hall of Fame" lurk inside this cemetery.
Milan, Italy
Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.
Como, Italy
Old batteries and frog skeletons reside in this lakeside monument to Alessandro Volta.
Brescia, Italy
This sculpture of a rhinoceros suspended above a city square is meant to evoke the weight of the human condition.