Ferdinand Magellan dubbed the world's largest water village the "Venice of the East."

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

This now-abandoned outcrop is an important Native American spiritual site, overtaken by European settlers and mining pollution.

The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.

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

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

This once-forgotten oasis in the middle of Lisbon was first created over a century ago quite by accident.

Tucked away inside this concrete building is a church and its grand display of brutalist architecture.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

This charming candle shop has been in business since 1789.