Visiting this café is like visiting the Austrian grandma you wish you had.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

A magnificent place to see authentic paleolithic cave paintings that are an astounding 33,000 years old.

A historic Christian shrine nestled within a spectacular natural cave.

The spectacular geological formations make it one of the most impressive caves in Europe.

The oldest Roman lighthouse still in use.

The closed and crumbling Francoist luxury resort for workers is still full of life—for now.

This modern sculpture looks out over the sea and amplifies sound from the inside.

Made up of 3,200 recycled glass bottles, this tree pays homage to Asturia's love of cider.

This enchanting green space houses a labyrinth lined with toxic plants.

This century-old ruined temple was reborn as "The Church of Skate."

The atmospheric ruins of a historic church can be found on a hill above the city of Oviedo.

The much-loved protagonist of famed Argentinian comics can be found sitting on a park bench.

Two large posteriors in one giant statue.

This Bronze Age man spent millennia buried in a mine, giving his bones an eerie hue.

A mountain path passes by several sprawling enclosures home to a pair of rescued brown bears.

The young girl gained fame for her atypical size and was regarded as a curiosity by the Spanish aristocracy.

Natural stone arches form a walkable "cathedral" at low tide, then disappear entirely when the water returns.

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

A striped 12th-century basilica sits in the countryside of Sardinia.

Nicolas Schöffer's massive interactive sculpture was assembled in 1961 and brought back online in 2016.

This giant urban staircase was built to keep the city's brave fighting men from getting waylaid in the red light district.