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

A temple to modernity, tucked away amid Barcelona's more well known museums.

The iconic boulevard is the perfect place to catch sight of a bicycling skeleton, a levitating Satan, or a chef with his head stuck in a pizza.

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

A fantastic Christmas tradition where defecation meets the manger.

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

The Underground Railroad passed right through this historic Brooklyn Heights church.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Thousands of narrow alleyways in an ancient medieval city make up what's believed to be the world's largest car-free urban zone.

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.