Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

Certain traditions prevail on the least-visited island of the Aran Islands.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

The oldest inn in Kilkenny was established by the first convicted witch in Ireland.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

Vibrant street art created with mixed media.

The oldest giants in Catalonia are now displayed in a 14th-century Gothic church.

Of the many chalices in the running for the Holy Grail, this one in Valencia Cathedral sure looks the part.

Holy Grotto of Montserrat Monastery holds one of Europe's mysterious black Madonnas.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

Some say this medieval church is where the poet Dante married his wife and also met the love of his life.

A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.

In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.