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Marvel at this immense work of art that greets arrivals to the city.

After the queen of Spain had a dream where these statues fell and crushed her, they were removed from the palace and given new homes around Madrid.

This piece of early engineering is rather unknown despite its location in the heart of Madrid.

This open-air sculpture museum is located under a bridge in the center of Madrid.

Kingly French toast comes soaked in milk or red wine, then drizzled in a citrus-perfumed syrup.

This sculpture in Valencia features 22,000 tiny, obsidian blue figures that pay homage to the Lady of Elche.

This 18th-century pond is one of the main attractions in the Jardín del Príncipe in Aranjuez.

This dragon narrowly escaped demolition.

Believed to be the largest Spanish sculpture affixed to a housing block.

The first museum in Europe dedicated to the art of origami.

A man's curious and seriously small handmade objects from around the world.

Discover everything there is to know about Catalan giants and "Big-Heads."

Step into the past of this Andalusian town through exhibits with traditional tools, local crafts, and cultural artifacts.

This enigmatic Iberian sculpture of uncertain origin may have once guarded a burial site.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

To the famous surrealist artist, liberty required two torches held high.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

There is a strange little carving of a person seemingly crushed by a pillar behind the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Guests can stay at a hotel in the former French abbey where lie the tombs of King Henry II and King Richard the Lionheart.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.