The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

This home designed for chocolate magnate Antoni Amatller is an exquisite treasure-box of Catalan Modernism.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

Catalonia Tradition: Beating the hollow Christmas log until it defecates in your fireplace.

The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.

An eclectic collection of thousands of items owned by the sculptor Frederic Marès.

Dunk your churros in rich hot chocolate on the city’s old “Chocolate Street.”

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

The oldest giants in Catalonia are now displayed in a 14th-century Gothic church.

On the wall of this medieval walkway, a symbol of the Spanish Inquisition.

This strategically-placed fountain creates the magnificent illusion of mustangs galloping across a river.

Before TV meteorologists, there were weather kiosks. This may be the last one in the United States.

The statue mysteriously lost its head and left hand.

A desiccated merman and a walrus penis bone are among the oddities in this eclectic collection of shipwreck treasures.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

This building at the south end of the boardwalk was once home to the U.S. Life-Saving Service and the U.S. Coast Guard before being rescued itself.

One of the oldest active carousels in the country—but it might be missed by all but the keenest-eyed boardwalk strollers.

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.

This church in Pittsburgh is home to the largest collection of religious relics in North America.

The Master of Magnetism dominates the walls of a scrap metal yard to keep graffiti artists at bay.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

This monument traces the segregation line that inspired the first rural branch of the NAACP.