The world's tallest bridge is also possibly the most elegant.

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

The corpse bride of Portugal.

A majestic hotel for dreamers rises from the center of a fairytale wood.

A cluster of granite granaries perched on stilts.

Images of neighbors past and present guard the streets of this charming alpine village.

An ongoing medieval tradition of communal pig husbandry is honored with a handsome granite sculpture.

The Cathedral of Salamanca has a number of unusual carvings but none so surprising as a modern astronaut.

A hidden medieval crypt where a famous legend says the devil used to teach black magic.

An unusual but excellent display created in the 1930s as propaganda against the Freemasons.

The facade of this 16th-century building is decorated with carvings of 300 seashells.

A well-preserved medieval village nested on a rocky outcrop and surrounded by a network of cliffs, natural bridges and canyons.

A chapel on a volcanic core, marking the end of a successful journey.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

Now overgrown, these anti-tank barriers from World War II are sometimes called "dragon's teeth."

The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.

A towering baroque basilica jutting out of the French countryside.

A 600-year-old elm tree with a built-in seat and thatched roof.

Today this former Nazi concentration camp stands as a poignant memorial to the victims of fascism, and a warning from history.

The woman who helped save 15th-century France was born in this humble home.

Site of one of World War I's most horrific scenes.

Hundreds of dwarf beeches create an unusual, haunting forest in the north of France.

The world's largest boar is a huge steel titan found at a French rest stop.

The castle was reconstructed to fit Kaiser Wilhelm II's romanticized vision of the Middle Ages.