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

This fascinating and poignant museum chronicles every imaginable aspect of Spanish colonialism in the Americas.

This lucky bronze frog was gifted to Madrid by a casino.

Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.

Earth's rocky history has rarely glittered so brightly as it does in this Spanish museum.

The earliest known map to show America, discovered by accident at a Paris bookshop.

Over two centuries old and counting, Madrid's massive botanical garden contains one of Europe's only desert environments.

Among the oldest structures in Madrid, these Moorish walls once guarded the medieval city of Mayrit.

An ancient Egyptian temple in the middle of Madrid, Spain.

Neo-cave art on the macro scale.

This imposing memorial contains the remains of Che Guevara — and 29 other guerrillas who died with him in Bolivia.

The house that birthed The Old Man and The Sea is now a museum devoted to the old man who wrote it.

A focal point of the Cuban government, this city square features one of the most iconic images in the country.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

This impressive clifftop temple was once at the center of an international custody dispute.

Hoax, mistake, or evidence of dinosaurs in human times?

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

This picturesque monastery at the base of a cliff is a peaceful oasis open to all visitors.

Some of the best-preserved specimens of the monumental medieval tombstones found throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

A sanctuary for sickly, stray, or wounded donkeys.

This massive Maya archaeological site is home to the tallest man-made structure in Belize.