Barcelona, Spain
El Caganer
A fantastic Christmas tradition where defecation meets the manger.
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Barcelona, Spain
A fantastic Christmas tradition where defecation meets the manger.
Barcelona, Spain
The oldest giants in Catalonia are now displayed in a 14th-century Gothic church.
Barcelona, Spain
A vista of the city and sea from atop the little-known viewing deck on an unassuming Columbus statue.
Barcelona, Spain
The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.
Barcelona, Spain
One of the most photographed buildings in a city known for its Modernista architecture is an abandoned squat.
Barcelona, Spain
A temple to modernity, tucked away amid Barcelona's more well known museums.
Barcelona, Spain
Week-long block party becomes a competition for the best decorated street.
Barcelona, Spain
This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.
Barcelona, Spain
Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.
Jaipur, India
More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.
Jaipur, India
The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.
Howrah, India
A single tree's 2,800 aerial roots give the appearance of a complete forest.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Prague, Czechia
Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.
Prague, Czechia
This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.
Prague, Czechia
Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.
Barcelona, Spain
This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.
Barcelona, Spain
A former steam-powered mill from the 1800s is now an industrial park with a giant steel dragon slide.
Barcelona, Spain
Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.
Barcelona, Spain
One of Europe's largest supercomputers is housed inside of a disused chapel.
Havana, Cuba
In terms of history and architecture, this is one of the most remarkable cemeteries in the world.
Barcelona, Spain
An unusual stroll through gentlemen's erotica demonstrates that pornography is timeless.
Monistrol de Montserrat, Spain
Holy Grotto of Montserrat Monastery holds one of Europe's mysterious black Madonnas.