A complimentary beverage is offered to the bodega's resident rodents every day.

The world's largest wooden structure.

A 16th-century Andalusian palace.

Its appearance in "Game of Thrones" may spur on the long-awaited restoration of this medieval shipyard.

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

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

A sacred mountaintop temple offers a fine cup of tea to visitors who can survive the journey.

A harrowing trail up a mile-high mountain.

An enormous effigy of the goddess of compassion hides within the sanctuary.

A wall within the institution displays the names of 13,000 Jews who took refuge in the city during World War II.

This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.

This ratty natural history collection is a charming relic among a city rushing into modernity.

A giant scale model giving a sneak peek at what urban planners see for Shanghai by 2020.

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.