A complimentary beverage is offered to the bodega's resident rodents every day.

The extravagance of Portugal’s "Pink Palace" resulted in a noble title being awarded to its owner.

A small church ornamented with medieval erotic sculptures.

Stormy conditions send jets of seawater bursting through holes in the cliffs.

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

A spectacular walk on the flank of a gorge.

The streets of a sleepy Spanish town proudly exhibit some of the world's finest graffiti.

This massive fiberglass Gulliver turns every visitor into a Lilliputian.

This architectural oddity is an oasis of green on the outskirts of Valencia.

This 47-story "M" needed 20 years to be completed

An enchanting landscape of ancient sandstone structures eroded into otherworldly shapes.

Bacteria and algae give the salty water its bubblegum hue.

This surreal-looking tree pruned more than 1,000 years ago is still producing olives for oil.

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

Spanning the El Chorro gorge, this pathway used to be one of the most dangerous crossings in the world.

Moorish signal station on a stratgic rocky outcrop.

This remote location of this Moorish stronghold means it doesn’t attract many tourists—and that it still has the aura of fear and bravery of the 1300s.

The cathedral of a controversial, conservative, schismatic sect that declared the Catholic Church heretical and founded its own succession of popes.

The world's most elegant power lines.

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

This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.