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A remote hilltop covered in giant monoliths haunts the Brittany countryside.

The largest underground church in Europe.

Whether they are bulls or pigs, these ancient animal sculptures are fascinating relics.

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."

This narrow path was cut right into a French mountainside to feed the country's early naval expansion.

Abandoned Nazi train station turned underground astroparticle laboratory.

Designed in the Romanesque style, this structure was once a fortress monastery.

A series of recreated fortifications mark George Orwell's path through the Spanish Civil War.

An abandoned anti-smuggling station decays along the boundary between Portugal and Spain.

One of Europe's largest groups of dolmens remains largely off the typical tourist track.

Disturbing winged beings decorate the walls of this strange abandoned hermitage.

This 7,000-year-old megalithic wonder covered by a Franco-era reservoir emerges in times of drought.

An outsider folly near Madrid.

Numerous sculptures set along hiking trails symbolize and idealize the relationship between man and nature.

This awesome Spanish castle is so fantastical it was actually used on Game of Thrones.

This tunnel was built in order to protect the village of Daroca from flash floods during rainy seasons.

A site where “the ravages of the war are more striking…than any other place in contemporary Spain.”