This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

Where dogs like the rare "Fire-Tailed Border Cocker" run free on the mountainside.

Dine inside a giant caterpillar at this community-run eatery.

The same water that fills a luxury resort’s pools feeds these free hot springs in the rainforest.

A restaurant devoted to "trouser grip" wrestling, an ancient form of Viking wrestling that is Iceland's national sport.

A whimsical bridge uses saxophones to pay tribute to two great men and the European Union.

One of the largest Roman settlements in Portugal.

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

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

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

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

A shining memorial to a Belgian hero is said to bring luck to anyone who touches it.

In addition to showing films, this one-screen arthouse cinema from the late 1940s is a museum of old film equipment.

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

Tucked away inside this concrete building is a church and its grand display of brutalist architecture.

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

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

Did Inca children also slide down these smooth rocky slopes above Cusco?

Reclaimed material from a convent destroyed by cannonfire was used to build parts of this 19th-century cemetery.