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

The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.

Construction of Barcelona's iconic (but controversial) church is expected to be completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

Giant eggs, walls of bread, and nightmare surreality mark the largest collection of works by Salvador Dalí.

At the foot of a waterfall lies a peaceful swimming lagoon and evidence of over 60,000 years of human habitation.

A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.

This liminal destination combines creaky carnival rides, a classic car museum, and luck-of-the-draw flea market finds surrounded by dust and drive-in movie screens.

Carrying on the legacy of a short-lived experimental school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

The magic's in the hole!

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

Looking strangely like Rome's Colosseum, this unfinished tower has dominated the skyline for over 100 years.

The heart of a Scottish legend had a centuries-long journey before reaching its final resting place.

An incredibly well-preserved piece of ninth-century Viking poop.

Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.

Inside a Scottish castle hangs the tattered remains of a flag with murky origins and supposed magic powers.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.