An enchanting monastery in the Spanish countryside appears lifted from a fantasy tale.

Hundreds of stone stairs and a winding medieval bridge connect this haunting Spanish island to the mainland.

Wonderland replication in progress by one persistent man.

A museum dedicated to the Spanish occult in a town that was terrorized by the Inquisition.

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

Iron Age runes and ruins hide in plain sight along this Portuguese beach.

Rainwater transformed this old quarry into a peaceful pond you won't find in most tourist books.

At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.

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

An honorary saint of the people, Maria Adelaide became an incorrupt corpse, the clothes intact, exhaling “a strong scent of roses.”

A perfectly circular lake is formed by the crater of an ancient underwater volcano.

The corpse bride of Portugal.

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

The stunning interior of this Gothic church is covered in ornate gold details.

Picturesque intersection of witchcraft and ancient Christianity.

A unique seaside cave where Aleister Crowley faked his own death.

This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.

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

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

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

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.