A daily pyrotechnic celebration marks a beloved tradition during Valencia's festival season.

This amazing example of Valencian Art Nouveau looks more like a cathedral than a public market.

Of the many chalices in the running for the Holy Grail, this one in Valencia Cathedral sure looks the part.

The most elaborate of 12 medieval arched doorways to the old city of Burgos.

The site of a legendary battle immortalized in medieval literature.

A chapel on a volcanic core, marking the end of a successful journey.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

Lyon's miniature version of the Eiffel Tower was built as a statement in support of French secularism.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.

A colorful piece of contemporary art cheerfully clashes with Lyon's historical architecture.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

Tucked away on a scenic trail, a modest memorial honors one of the greatest writers of our time.

An image of the legendary saint stands in the shadow of a cathedral she liberated.

This small red school was where Germany signed their surrender during WWII.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

An accidental trick of light casts the perfect shadow of a pilgrim of the Camino de Santiago against the cathedral wall.

During an annual Catholic feast in this tiny Spanish village, men dressed as devils leap over rows of babies to cleanse them of sin.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

These spartan apartments are provided to clergymen visiting Vatican City.

A hidden workshop for creating and restoring Papal mosaic masterpieces.

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.