This former charity hospital for elderly clergy houses some of Seville’s most treasured paintings.

Its appearance in "Game of Thrones" may spur on the long-awaited restoration of this medieval shipyard.

Eat like a bird in a bamboo nest.

Hidden in the Santa Ynez Mountains off Highway 154, this tiny restaurant once served as a stagecoach stop.

The only pub in the world surrounded by an ancient stone circle.

This mansion turned restaurant was once a pitstop for Al Capone during his travels.

This solo operation offers the world's only whey wines in flavors such as chocolate-orange.

A cheese discovery made by shepherds became the pride of a region.

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

An abandoned 1920s-era stretch of cabins now overshadowed by the 66 Motel.

In one Santa Monica parking lot a mushroom cloud made of chains heralds a message of peace.

The site of the first medieval crusade that pitted Christians against Christians.

This castle-fortress is a living example of the transition from medieval defenses to modern fortifications.

Immortalized by artists, this church incorporates a medieval lighthouse into its shoreside structure.

This French castle is said to have once held the Holy Grail but is now a gorgeous mountaintop ruin.

15,000 year old bison sculptures.

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."

Abandoned blockhouses from Nazi Germany's Atlantic Wall erode into the sea on a French beach.

The eclectic observatory castle of a 19th-century astronomer and explorer.

A whimsical garden of outsider art in the Spanish countryside.

An isolated village literally built into the crevices and rock formations of a mountain.

The ruins of a bombed medieval village memorialize the destruction of the Spanish Civil War.

An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.

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