Barcelona, Spain
Park Güell
GaudÃ's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.
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Barcelona, Spain
GaudÃ's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.
Nice, France
This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.
Aix-en-Provence, France
A French library that makes sure its love of books is writ large... giant in fact.
Lyon, France
Lyon's "Wall of the Silk Weavers" is one of the largest murals in Europe.
Lyon, France
Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.
Lyon, France
For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.
Lyon, France
A colorful piece of contemporary art cheerfully clashes with Lyon's historical architecture.
Albi, France
A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.
Bordeaux, France
The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.
Carcassonne, France
Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.
Paris, France
Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.
Fort Stockton, Texas
The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.
Dallas, Texas
A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.
Houston, Texas
Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.
Karnack, Texas
Foragers once flocked to this big beautiful bayou to hunt for pearls.
Paris, Texas
In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.
San Antonio, Texas
These boots are made for selfies.
Waco, Texas
Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.
Sonora, Texas
A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.
Kyoto, Japan
The 10,000 Torii shrine.
Tokyo, Japan
Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.
Kyoto, Japan
This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.
Kyoto, Japan
The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
One of the largest aviation events in the world brings half a million aircraft enthusiasts to Wisconsin each year.