One of the few places in Portugal where the Celtic ritual of wearing large wooden masks is still practiced.

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

This giant sculpture made of trash is a critique of society's wastefulness.

Building owners can take out tiles for free at this repository for historic building materials.

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

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

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.

The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.

Catering to broken dolls for almost 200 years, this repair shop is now a charnel house of doll parts.

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

This charming candle shop has been in business since 1789.

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.

Picturesque intersection of witchcraft and ancient Christianity.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

A fortified city, home to a remaining population of five families

World's largest film studio, where visitors tour the decaying sets that litter the harsh desert environment.

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

The former home of Dutch anthropologist Bert Flint now houses a collection of Berber art and artifacts.

North Africa's first museum of its kind preserves the culture of Moroccan women and their artistic achievements. 

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.