This 19th-century fountain's namesake animal isn't what you think it is.

A cheese discovery made by shepherds became the pride of a region.

This overlooked museum houses an amazing collection of rare, antique typewriters.

An impressive display of ships and artifacts from the ancient Mediterranean maritime trade.

This stunning iron gate designed by Modernist architect Antoni Gaudí is filled with mythic symbolism.

The ruins of an ancient stadium that hosted gripping chariot and horse races.

A display of torture devices used in the Spanish Inquisition and other scourges of medieval Europe.

A curious carving hides on a marble column in the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba.

Occupied for six centuries by Franciscan Order nuns, this monastery is an amazing ode to Catalán Gothic architecture.

Its appearance in "Game of Thrones" may spur on the long-awaited restoration of this medieval shipyard.

The oldest giants in Catalonia are now displayed in a 14th-century Gothic church.

A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.

One of Antoni Gaudí's least-visited works, an homage to Catalan patrimony that mixes neo-Gothic with Modernista forms.

An isolated village literally built into the crevices and rock formations of a mountain.

The remains of the second-oldest zoo in Europe can be seen within these library gardens.

The surviving remnants of a destroyed medieval church now stand in a public park.

The atmospheric ruins of a historic church can be found on a hill above the city of Oviedo.

The much-loved protagonist of famed Argentinian comics can be found sitting on a park bench.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.