Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

You can take a class, browse the library, or visit the lavish lair of an international men's humor society.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

For decades, Puerta del Sol has been illuminated by a giant, guitar-wielding bottle of sherry.

This underground church is topped with a 500-foot cross that is seen by many as a beacon of fascist hubris.

This local emblem is the oldest and largest dragon tree in the Canary Islands.

According to the Guanches, the aboriginal people of the Canary Islands, the king of evil lives inside this volcano.

This colorful statue welcomes visitors to a Barcelona park.

This magnificent castle grew from a small Moorish fortress, and reportedly inspired two iconic Disney castles.

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

The Cathedral of Salamanca has a number of unusual carvings but none so surprising as a modern astronaut.

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

A site where “the ravages of the war are more striking…than any other place in contemporary Spain.”

This sweet-toothed bear searching for snacks has been a symbol of Madrid for decades.

A stone slab in Madrid marks the point from which the distances of Spain's national roads are measured.

This home designed for chocolate magnate Antoni Amatller is an exquisite treasure-box of Catalan Modernism.

One of Antoni Gaudí’s earliest buildings, built between 1886 and 1890 for the industrialist Eusebi Güell.