An iconic and controversial ancient Iberian funerary urn with a hauntingly penetrating gaze.

Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

The hauntingly beautiful interior of a church almost destroyed by protestors’ fire.

An old, deep well, connected with a miraculous, divine rescue and the patron saint of Madrid.

Crafted in the royal workshop of Saint Isidoro of León, in 1063, this is the first medieval Hispanic crucifix featuring the image of Christ

This engraved safety pin has possible links to the haberdasheries located in this humble square

At only 14.25 meters long, Travesía del Biombo is the shortest street in Madrid

The ruins of a once-mighty medieval palace are hidden away in otherwise modern London

The prehistoric home of an enormous ground sloth that once roamed Patagonia

A beautiful and original museum dedicated to art of the 1930s in France and beyond.

A crypt of relics guards a vial said to liquefy each July

For a city that is so rife with gleaming statues and memorials in alabaster and bronze, this occultish-looking wooden example poses more questions than it answers

The Guinness Book acknowledged one of the biggest and oldest collections of computer games, featuring a strange 'pain machine' that blurs the boundaries between the digital and the real world

Memorial for the woman who invented the coffee filter

The ruins of the Sacred Heart Memorial, which was first “shot” by a weird firing squad and then dynamited during the Spanish Civil War

One of the most important pieces in the Madrid History Museum and one of the oldest historical models of a city in Europe

This unassuming bookstore in the heart of Madrid is one of the oldest in Spain.

Strange masks and obscure costumes are housed in this old Madrid corrala.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

An iron dragon with a long neck covered in feathery scales perched above one of Venice's most popular squares.

A fantastic Christmas tradition where defecation meets the manger.