This quaint Spanish village agreed to be painted blue as a marketing stunt but found that they preferred it that way.

An eccentric collection of antique items shares space with a prop-quality witchcraft museum.

The world's most elegant power lines.

The cathedral of a controversial, conservative, schismatic sect that declared the Catholic Church heretical and founded its own succession of popes.

Spain's largest bullring offers a unique glimpse at architecture and history.

Its appearance in "Game of Thrones" may spur on the long-awaited restoration of this medieval shipyard.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.

The world's largest wooden structure.

A micro-communist utopia in Spain with no police, no mortgages and full employment.

Holding the current title of "biggest chair in the world," it stands with little fanfare in Lucena, Spain.

More than 70 detailed dioramas—including some rather nontraditional ones—fill this charming museum.

This abandoned, turn-of-the-century astronomy hub is now the subject of more photographs than it ever took.

This art installation at an abandoned lipstick factory has distinct anti-capitalist vibes.

A New York–based physician returned home to Spain to build his own elaborate monument to Christopher Columbus.

Bold black and white motifs of life and death add a dramatic flair to this 17th-century crypt.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

Nestled within a German forest is an intriguing, growing rock.

Hidden in the forest are the crumbling, graffiti-covered remains of the factory where most of Germany's explosives were produced during World War II.