This ice cream parlor serves scoops of flavors like rakia, medlar, and poppy seed.

In the sleepy town of Gozo exists a reproduction of the entire town of Bethlehem.

These temples are among the oldest free-standing stone buildings in the world.

The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.

A fascist-era rural village abandoned since the early 1980s.

The enormous earthwork sculpture honors the ponies that lived and worked in the old colliery.

This macabre monument atop an ancient well gives a nod to a brutal episode in Scottish clan history.

Perched atop the highest hill in Cartagena, this 17th-century convent offers spectacular views of the city.

The colonial city's social history is reflected in its fanciful door knockers.

A memorial to the British politician who spearheaded the National Health Service.

A celebration of all things tacky, garish, and bizarrely creative in the Romanian capital.

The eclectic seaside sanctuary caters to a rather fowl crowd.

The ruins of a megalithic monument sit right in the garden of a luxurious Maltese resort.

One man's quest to fix his toilet unearthed over 5,000 artifacts spanning more than 2,000 years of history.

The bust of Romania’s most notorious ruler, Vlad Dracula aka "Vlad the Impaler," keeps watch over the ruins of his medieval court.

Dramatic sea stacks adorn the coast of this small village on the Adriatic coast.

The second-largest Jewish temple in Bulgaria was deserted after World War II, seized by the communist government and then abandoned again.

A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.

A quaint hamlet of nine cottages around a small green near Blaise castle.

A Welsh sheep farm provides daily (non-sheep) meals to red kites, producing dazzling displays of aerial acrobatics.

This prison on the Maltese island of Gozo is almost 500 years old, and they have the graffiti to prove it.

An eccentric artist's abode in this small Italian town has been transformed into a surreal temple of mosaic madness.

Two geological phenomena in one precarious locale: a towering stone window, and a deep blue void.

This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.