This cafe offers a curated collection of treats and tipples made by monks and nuns.

This Canadian hunting lodge is a long way from home.

The world's largest sundial can cast a shadow more than 1,600 feet long.

The four landings commemorate a royal visit to Europe's biggest observatory.

A former 16th-century monastery houses a museum dedicated to the island and its culture.

This Canary island is a quintessential example of nature’s beauty, and its unbridled fury.

The abandoned club hides in the hills of Ibiza.

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

This enormous censer uses a pulley system installed over 400 years ago.

In Spain, the ruins of a Roman military camp sit along a flooded section of a river.

These magnificently sculpted tombs represent Spain's own legendary version of "Romeo and Juliet."

An ornate tower shows off a local artist's architectural flair.

This charming, medieval walled village is Spain's first "book town."

A five-square-mile slice of Spain on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa.

A magnificent, long-abandoned castle built in the wake of the reconquest of Spain.

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

A micro-communist utopia in Spain with no police, no mortgages and full employment.

An eclectic collection of thousands of items owned by the sculptor Frederic Marès.

The chefs at El Diablo use heat generated by an active volcano to cook the food.

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

Week-long block party becomes a competition for the best decorated street.

An ancient Egyptian temple in the middle of Madrid, Spain.

Step inside the first house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, considered to be one of the first Art Nouveau buildings.

The effect of this ancient form of image projection situated atop an 11th century Moorish palace is thrilling.