Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.

Artistic tombs, monuments, and a beautiful "Hall of Fame" lurk inside this cemetery.

Walk into an underground archeological dig, the site of the Roman Forum that was once the center of Valencia.

The studio of Catalonia's most famous theatrical designer remains exactly as he left it.

Replicas of fossils unearthed during renovation work reveal how this area would have looked millions of years ago.

A pair of gigantic baby heads greet passengers at Atocha Station.

Roman-era ships unearthed...

An alchemist's "magic door" stands in the middle of a Roman park.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

The non-native bovine herd was brought in to help conserve these Berlin wetlands.

This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

A towering monument to war, located on a beautifully peaceful hill.