CONTENTS: 1 Introduction 2 Analytic Manifolds and Analytic Continuation of Metrics 3 Walker's Spacetimes and their Maximal Extension 4 Global Structure of de Sitter and Reissner-Nordstr\"om-de Sitter Cosmos 4.1 Special Cases 4.2 Collapsing Dust 5 Euclidean Metrics 6 Physical Interpretation of Euclidean Solutions, and a remark about the Gravitational Action 6.1 Thermal Interpretation 6.2 Tunneling Interpretation 7 The Multi-Black-Hole Solutions 7.1 Merging Black Holes 7.2 Continuing Beyond the Horizons 8 Naked Singularities? Reference