How did this lovely seaside English village come by such an unusual name?

Wooden sleds have replaced donkeys to cart goods around this utterly charming car-free village.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

A site where “the ravages of the war are more striking…than any other place in contemporary Spain.”

12th-century holy complex shares land with a natural park full of heavenly waterfalls and raptors.

Giant naked man on a hillside.

In 1943 the British military took control of this village, telling residents they had to leave temporarily. The villagers were never allowed to return.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

The largest underground church in Europe.

Bordered by forest on three sides and the ocean on the other, the Great Dune of Pilat is the highest sand dune in Europe.