Vast stretch of tide-pools with a unique Moroccan charm.

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.

Along the most northwestern point in Africa is an ancient cave surrounded by legends.

Rocky Atlantic beach home to a stunning stone arch.

Founded as a refugee camp, now a popular tourist spot.

A small but charming botanical garden that contains many exotic plant species.

This unassuming chapel in Portugal plays host to a ghoulish collection of bones.

A lush oasis full of vibrant plants and striking geometric displays.

The medieval town's star-shaped walls are geometrically dazzling, though not entirely impenetrable.

A windswept necropolis carved into the rocks overlooks the "most Portuguese town in Portugal."

Hidden beneath a beautiful overlook you’ll find the history of the city depicted in comic strip format next to a pay toilet.

You can cross from one country to another in a single hop on this little bridge.

Men in rubber-soled boots serve as your "brakes" on this toboggan ride Hemingway described as "exhilarating."

This star-shaped military outpost is now simply trying to protect itself from neglect.

This once-forgotten oasis in the middle of Lisbon was first created over a century ago quite by accident.

In Portugal, a secluded stretch of untouched natural beauty hides at the bottom of a steep hill.

Local lore says the devil built this beautiful medieval bridge to help a fleeing bandit.

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

An early work of the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, these swimming pools blend into the beach.

A stunning 18th-century site where pilgrims ascend by a series of punishing stairs only to return via funicular.

A small Portuguese cottage formed between boulders in the countryside.

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

The medieval castle built as headquarters for the Pope's secretive Knights Templar.