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

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

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

"Call for the doctor, call for the nurse... Vote!! said the lady with the alligator purse."

An important example of architectural history slowly decays in the city center.

A staircase made of gravestones leads up to this church built into a giant rock.

Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.

A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.

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

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

There's a mini version of Iguazu Falls hidden in the Balkans, and it's got a rope swing.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

When a supermarket opened up shop within a medieval building it became protected by UNESCO on a technicality.

Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.

A semi-retired nurse’s record-setting collection of 3,000 tiny chairs.

Rare and classic books by Black authors are the focus at this independent bookstore in a historic Atlanta neighborhood.

The small first-floor apartment where the author wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning book 'Gone with the Wind.'