This museum was invented in a novel before being made real by the author.

This historic hotel preserves many treasures from its heyday hosting passengers on the Orient Express.

Ancient serpentine sacrifice holder that has stood the test of time.

A fountain standing as a testament to a doomed alliance.

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

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

Bring out your dead (saints that have been festooned and bejeweled, so that we can parade them around the town)!

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.

Saint Joseph was said to heal the deaf and blind, but it was a much smaller miracle that got him canonized.

Occupied for six centuries by Franciscan Order nuns, this monastery is an amazing ode to Catalán Gothic architecture.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

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

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.