Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

Hitch a boat ride to dine on stilts while watching wildlife.

A rustic place to spend the night, complete with amazing quiver trees and outsider art.

A rare cluster of alien-like plants grows along a dusty highway.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

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

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

A spectacular walk on the flank of a gorge.

A road that winds through this natural cave is the only way to access the small, appropriately-named village of Cuevas.

A historic Christian shrine nestled within a spectacular natural cave.

Seaside ruins of a settlement that date back to the first century B.C.

Translating as "The Jump of the Girlfriend," this stunning waterfall has a tragic legend behind it.

This religious complex carved into a cliff is steeped in legends of miraculous stags and the Holy Grail.

An ancient Roman theatre restored to its former glory in the Spanish city of Cartegena.

This line of 12 tower mills described in the story of Don Quixote is among the most iconic landscapes in Spain.

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

This enchanting natural park is a magical example of a temperate rainforest in Europe.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

One of the most spectacular bridges in Spain spans a narrow chasm that divides the city of Ronda.

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

This quaint Spanish village agreed to be painted blue as a marketing stunt but found that they preferred it that way.