Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities.

An abandoned mine now resembles a post-apocalyptic landscape of derelict buildings and blood-red pools of water.

Tucked away inside this concrete building is a church and its grand display of brutalist architecture.

An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.

Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.

This oddly shaped church resembles a rocket.

The verdant mossy ruins of a Franciscan monastery lie in the remote Sintra hills awaiting exploration.

At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.

This enigmatic Roman tower lurks just outside Belmonte.

One of the few places in Portugal where the Celtic ritual of wearing large wooden masks is still practiced.

A small Portuguese cottage formed between boulders in the countryside.

A devasting 2020 fire left this historic seminary in ruins.

Building owners can take out tiles for free at this repository for historic building materials.

This haunting location was featured in the final scene of a classic spaghetti western.

This quaint farm in the Peloponnese countryside hides an astonishing cache of antique curiosities.

The quirky - and private - constructions of a secluded artist depict the house of God.

A medieval village holds a very modern hotel.

A landscape decorated with enormous skull sculptures.

An abandoned desert hamlet swallowed up by sand.

This striking sculpture of Icarus honors Greece's fallen flyers.

This town named for the ancient God of War is home to fewer than a thousand people, but it's the birthplace of the Greek Revolution.

A cave network located at the southernmost tip of mainland Greece was once believed to be an entrance to Hades.

The historic tower houses of this nearly abandoned Greek town have been compared to the spikes on an iguana's back.

This wrecked ghost ship has been rusting on a Greek beach since the 1980s.