Some "pardoned" Fallas are kept together and preserved in this museum instead of being burnt

Remains of the walls of the Roman city named for its founder

This amazing cathedral was built on the site of the first Marian shrine in Spain and is important to Spanish speakers the world over

Centuries before masks and sanitizer, Oslo’s oldest public monument remembers its last plague dead.

A museum inside a Byzantine island monastery.

A forgotten Art Deco department store in central Budapest, where faded socialist-era retail grandeur meets the haunting beauty of urban decay.

One of the oldest and most significant collections of Ancient Egyptian archeology outside of Egypt.

A giant coin serves as a very unusual yet creative monument commemorating one of the most important people in the history of Trieste.

Once silenced for being off-key, this bell has found a new voice as an interactive public artwork.

One of the earliest subway stations in Stockholm, which still looks like the 1950s.

The original shop where the iconic Belgian praline was invented.

Charming small streets lined with well preserved wooden houses dating to the 18th and 19th century.

One of Warsaw's coolest malls was once a center for anti-Nazi resistance activity.

Carved scenes of sex work and unglamorous labour beneath a cultural hero.

This striking sculpture was created in memory of enslaved people, acknowledging that the city of Bordeaux was France’s second-largest slave-trade port.

Elevated brass pavilions form a kaleidoscope of fragmented views of the surrounding historic cityscape.

Across Valencia lie the remains of three ancient fortifications built centuries apart: a Roman enclosure, an Islamic expansion, and a medieval Christian wall.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

This tribute to the 16th-century composer is now an unusual shrine to Michael Jackson.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.