Eat the ultimate iteration of Portugal's most beloved pastry.

A masterpiece of Rationalist architecture in the center of Madrid with lizards on it.

This memorial to a murdered empress took 20 years to design, then spent 30 years hidden away in storage.

A plaque on the base of this statue holds a bewitching design.

This little sun pays homage to a massive gate that once stood at this location.

An Antoni Gaudí masterpiece in Astorga.

Also known as Uncle Karl, the beloved bronze copper keeps a watchful eye on St. Stephen’s Basilica while people rub his lucky belly.

This pair of unsuspecting buildings are in fact the very first modern skyscrapers in Europe.

A neighborhood represented by an apparent geocentric and flat-earth model of the Solar System is hidden in the subway of Madrid.

A must for film lovers in Madrid and home to the Spanish Film Library's projection space.

Meant to resemble a massive tree, the building is the best example of Spanish organicist architecture in Madrid.

Designed by Gustave Eiffel before his famed tower.

One of the best examples of the modernist movement in Madrid.

For more than half a millennia, this automaton has rung an hourly bell.

A window into a long-lost world, these colorful tiles advertise a long-defunct range of purgative teas, harmless smokables, and diarrhea cures.

Artist Natividad Sánchez wrote a new ending for one of Roman mythology's tragic love stories.

During the Soviet era, the spire of this longstanding church was used as a radio transmission tower.

Rubbing the buttons along this statue's coat is considered good luck.

Walk along the medieval fortifications that have been protecting Tallinn since the 14th century.

These enormous, stern-faced statues greet visitors with lanterns, and sometimes costumes.

A medieval setting reimagined into a unique art alley.

A much-loved sculpture depicting the hero of a 1956 anti-Soviet uprising.

This pair of gilded girls atop an Art Deco building in Copenhagen were built to function as a weather indicator.

In the middle of a Vienna square, Roman ruins dating back some 2,000 years are on display.