This tile-work piece featuring a chicken riding in carriage is both a remarkable artistic creation and a social commentary of politics and culture in 17th-century Portugal.

This little-known national museum houses over 40,000 works of art from across the world.

An exquisite collection of fairytale conveyances that puts most car museums to shame.

Portugal's National Pantheon has a history of curses, collapses and financial problems.

Hidden beneath a beautiful overlook you’ll find the history of the city depicted in comic strip format next to a pay toilet.

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

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

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

This former charity hospital for elderly clergy houses some of Seville’s most treasured paintings.

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

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

At this faithfully preserved medina off the Moroccan tourist circuit you can walk through six centuries of history in one day.

Red, white, and blue painted steps along with a Union Jack celebrate the outcome of Gibraltar's 1967 referendum.

There was a top secret plan during World War II to seal a group of soldiers inside the rock.

The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.

The remains of Uruguayan hero José Artigas lie beneath a monument in Montevideo’s main square.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

This theatre was made famous after Lee Harvey Oswald was captured inside watching a film.

The unique location where the former president was rapidly sworn in.

A statue in Balderas subway station honors the rock star who wrote about it in a song.

Bronzes and busts that once stood in the city's main squares are now relegated to a small hidden courtyard.

One of Amsterdam's narrowest houses is located right across the canal from its widest.

One of Belgrade's most beloved animals.

A misnamed well, with a deep dark past.