A deer-headed statue that brings together a 12th-century legend and big wave surfing.

Entire apothecaries are on display at this Lisbon museum, which explores the history of medicine.

These narrow stone granaries have been used to store and dry out grain for hundreds of years.

The crumbling ruins of an abandoned 12th-century monastery.

This slowly crumbling mansion was home to one of East Africa's richest and most powerful slave traders.

Over the course of its history, this tiny island has held enslaved people in transit and served as a quarantine zone. Today, it's a giant tortoise sanctuary.

When the sun sets, the customers arrive—but they’re not human.

Though it was originally dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva, Baphuon was converted to a Buddhist temple in the 15th century, complete with a massive hidden statue.

Once a highly polluted body of water has now been transformed into a gorgeous lagoon.

The largest open-pit gold mine in Canada.

The roofless ruins of a church surrounded by acres of bucolic farmland.

A reconstituted ancestral village of the Huron-Wendat Nation.

Little remains of the once flourishing Asbestos' asbestos mine.

Portugal's National Pantheon has a history of curses, collapses and financial problems.

The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.

Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.

A garden in Lisbon filled with giant porcelain creatures.

The verdant mossy ruins of a Franciscan monastery lie in the remote Sintra hills awaiting exploration.

One Portuguese poet described this cape, the westernmost point in mainland Europe, as "where the land ends and the sea begins."

In Portugal, a secluded stretch of untouched natural beauty hides at the bottom of a steep hill.

A unique seaside cave where Aleister Crowley faked his own death.

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

For more than two centuries, the canopy of this venerable tree has been a haven for songbirds and lovers.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.