This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

This museum contains a vast array of puppets and marionettes from all over the world, featuring incredible works by Portuguese creators.

An exquisite collection of fairytale conveyances that puts most car museums to shame.

This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

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

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

The solemn exterior conceals an opulent interior of this 17th century church.

A neo-Gothic church built to thank God for saving the Emperor of Austria from an assassination.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

A 19th-century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

A pair of pure white felines guard the entrance to a spot of California real estate established as an artist's haven.