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

Catering to broken dolls for almost 200 years, this repair shop is now a charnel house of doll parts.

A garden in Lisbon filled with giant porcelain creatures.

This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”

A network of underground water channels that dates back to the Middle Ages.

This mosaic-lined medieval church was built by the world's first admiral and still holds mass in ancient Greek.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

A study of Fascist era Art Deco design in Italy.

Haunting graffiti left by prisoners of the Spanish Inquisition.

Cave shrine on Monte Pellegrino.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.

A charming Spanish village sits atop this natural limestone overpass.

Natural stone arches form a walkable "cathedral" at low tide, then disappear entirely when the water returns.

This century-old ruined temple was reborn as "The Church of Skate."

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

The world's most important buildings shrunk to a tiny size.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

Archduke Ferdinand II's collection of rare objects is considered one of the oldest museums in the world.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.

The "dragon babies" of southeastern Europe.