A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.

The traditional Polish croissant, folded 81 times into the shape of a horseshoe, is a legally protected cultural treat.

Saint Joseph was said to heal the deaf and blind, but it was a much smaller miracle that got him canonized.

One of the most photographed buildings in a city known for its Modernista architecture is an abandoned squat.

The former 1920s mansion of a prominent Catalan developer was used as the Soviet Embassy during the Spanish Civil War, and there is still a bunker below the garden.

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

Possibly the oldest church in Barcelona, this basilica has its pagan and Christian mythologies all mixed up.

The oldest giants in Catalonia are now displayed in a 14th-century Gothic church.

A former steam-powered mill from the 1800s is now an industrial park with a giant steel dragon slide.

The studio of Catalonia's most famous theatrical designer remains exactly as he left it.

A vista of the city and sea from atop the little-known viewing deck on an unassuming Columbus statue.

A once-secret library of Freemason history in Catalonia.

This former Baroque palace on the historic Calle Montcada is a rare architectural gem and was once the meeting place of an aristocratic scholarly society.

A temple to modernity, tucked away amid Barcelona's more well known museums.

18th century anatomical amphitheater of the Royal College of Surgery of Barcelona.

This Funeral Hearse Museum represents the finest in cadaver transportation.

Bask in the 19th century grandeur of an eccentric Freemason millionaire's private gardens.

A stately palace has been converted into the world's largest cannabis museum.

Turntable anonymously received orphans, alms, and groceries.

Barcelona's historic 19th-century sewers, whose foundations were laid in medieval times, are open to the public for exploring.

Mountain where Jesus was first tempted by the Devil.

An unusual stroll through gentlemen's erotica demonstrates that pornography is timeless.

These secluded and abandoned anti-aircraft defenses have become one the most scenic viewpoints in Barcelona.

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