Barcelona, Spain
European Museum of Modern Art
A temple to modernity, tucked away amid Barcelona's more well known museums.
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Barcelona, Spain
A temple to modernity, tucked away amid Barcelona's more well known museums.
Barcelona, Spain
18th century anatomical amphitheater of the Royal College of Surgery of Barcelona.
Barcelona, Spain
A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.
Barcelona, Spain
This Funeral Hearse Museum represents the finest in cadaver transportation.
Barcelona, Spain
Occupied for six centuries by Franciscan Order nuns, this monastery is an amazing ode to Catalán Gothic architecture.
Esplugues de Llobregat, Spain
A surrealist labyrinth and museum of contemporary sculptures.
Castellcir, Spain
These striking ruins of a castle resemble a ship's stern.
Sant Quirze Safaja, Spain
An enchanting monastery in the Spanish countryside appears lifted from a fantasy tale.
Barcelona, Spain
One of Antoni Gaudí's least-visited works, an homage to Catalan patrimony that mixes neo-Gothic with Modernista forms.
Barcelona, Spain
Barcelona's only remaining tram system takes riders to the Tibidabo funicular.
Amiens, France
The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.
Amiens, France
A sublime medieval path adorns the marble floor of one of the most beautiful Gothic cathedrals in France.
Amiens, France
Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.
Naours, France
A centuries-old complex of hand-dug stone chambers has sheltered locals in times of trouble.
Manzanares el Real, Spain
This species of wild goat stars in witchy legends and frolics among the park's eerie rock formations.
Sosnogorsk, Russia
Gigantic natural towers in a Russian plateau.
Barcelona, Spain
A beautiful little museum hidden away in the heart of Barcelona holds a treasure trove of Ancient Egyptian artifacts
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.
Norway
Remote and wild, Kinnarodden is the northernmost point of mainland Europe.
Staré Město, Czechia
Hundreds of "animals" created from scrap metal, alongside a collection of other oddities.
Dresden, Germany
An exquisite panometer representing Dresden as it was from 1695 to 1760.
Radebeul, Germany
A museum dedicated to telling lies in service of the truth.
Ostermundigen, Switzerland
This small museum displays a collection of outsider art and scale models of past "treatments" for mental illness.
Bern, Switzerland
An amazing collection of rare wind instruments where visitors can give the iconic Swiss Alphorn a toot.