Elaborate tile work in this railway station tells the story of Portugal.

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

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

Picturesque intersection of witchcraft and ancient Christianity.

Ancient catacombs form the foundation for this Rococo orgy of a church.

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

A submerged village appears when dam levels drop.

Local lore says the devil built this beautiful medieval bridge to help a fleeing bandit.

A small Portuguese cottage formed between boulders in the countryside.

A cluster of granite granaries perched on stilts.

"Satisfying" is a good way to describe these beautifully aligned rows of Spanish mills.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

The mark of the Devil's horns on a marble column in Milan.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

One Italian taxi driver covered his entire house in small seashells creating a weird bit of architecture that is preserved to this day.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.