A cluster of granite granaries perched on stilts.

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

An ongoing medieval tradition of communal pig husbandry is honored with a handsome granite sculpture.

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

Wooden sleds have replaced donkeys to cart goods around this utterly charming car-free village.

A simple tribute to the microscopic arachnid that gives its juices and its life to help make a speciality German cheese.

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

The oldest Roman lighthouse still in use.

Open air sculptures by an eccentric and loin-clothed hermit.

A 12th century church completely covered in shells.

Natural stone arches form a walkable "cathedral" at low tide, then disappear entirely when the water returns.

Devastated landscape used for hundreds of years by the Romans as their primary mining site.

The remains of an encyclopedic sculpture garden later used as an internment camp.

1,300 chamber pots and their eccentric collector.

Remote, beautiful, and stigmatized, Las Hurdes is Spain's version of Appalachia.

Dead weights honor the dead of Portugal's fishing industry.

An old wool-washing house filled with Fluxus contemporary art.

You can cross from one country to another in a single hop on this little bridge.

A neolithic tomb converted into a tiny chapel.

This architectural beauty is the home to a personal collection of more than 600 examples of mechanical musical instruments.