What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

This ominous Albanian fortress houses tanks and downed planes as a reminder of their victories over Western imperialism.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

A medieval bridge stretches over a sulfur-rich river that leads to year-round natural hot springs.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

This small Spanish village is home to dozens of public paintings meant to trick the eye.

Continental Europe's only museum devoted to salt and pepper shakers features more than 20,000 designs.

This home designed for chocolate magnate Antoni Amatller is an exquisite treasure-box of Catalan Modernism.

This museum is known as the "Land of the Dinosaurs," but its full-scale dino models are just the start.

The fragmented remains of a massive public bath connected to the city's water supply.

This 15th century pharmacy displays a beautiful collection of ancient medicine jars.

Marvel at this massive waterspout fueled by the incoming tide.

Originally used to sell brandy, the bull-shaped billboard became an iconic symbol of Spain.

According to tradition, King Phillip II supervised construction of the seat of his empire from this seat carved into rock.

Head to the mountains to catch a glimpse of Spain's endangered subspecies of brown bear.

A controversial art piece that harkens back to local folklore.

The cathedral of a controversial, conservative, schismatic sect that declared the Catholic Church heretical and founded its own succession of popes.

Tour the inside of a massive lava tube formed during a 1949 volcanic eruption.

Experience this Iron Age village the way that its original residents would have.

Hundreds of preserved dinosaur footprints can be found along a hiking trail in this small village.

Barcelona's only remaining tram system takes riders to the Tibidabo funicular.

Sanctuary on a ridge near an ancient shrine to a "Black Madonna" built by the founder of Opus Dei.

A strange anthropomorphic stele with a mysterious inscription that has never been deciphered.

Remains of the lost church hide beneath this Spanish Parliament building.