The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

One of Jeff Koons’s largest sculptures and his first commemorative work.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

This colorful statue welcomes visitors to a Barcelona park.

For one day every month Barcelona's Estació de França transforms into a market for model trains.

An early 20th-century bullring converted into a modern shopping center.

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.

Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.

Windblown rock formations in an ancient Roman quarry.

A wild annual race in Sardinia re-enacts Constantine's victory in Rome.

A striped 12th-century basilica sits in the countryside of Sardinia.

A fantastic Christmas tradition where defecation meets the manger.

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

Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.