Enjoy traditional Louisiana-style gumbo and the spirit of Southern hospitality 7,000 miles from New Orleans.

The first statue to be added to Saint Peter's Square in over 350 years is an ode to migrants and refugees around the world.

Historic fortifications form the boundary of Vatican City, but it’s not entirely surrounded by walls.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

You can spot this teeny tiny stained-glass window from the Bonifacius bridge.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

Once the local rulers had gone these enchanting ruins housed common folk in an almost real life fairy tale.

An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.

One of Ireland's best-preserved chambered cairns can be found next to a wishing tree.

This 5,300-year-old tomb with mysterious carvings crowns an Irish mountain.

These imposing walls and towers look more like the ruins of a fortress than a monastery.

This single room has survived the centuries with almost no deterioration.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

Portugal’s highest lighthouse has one of the most impressive focal planes in the world.

Crafted from ocean litter, this sculpture highlights the ills of overconsumption.

A micronation on an islet along the coast of a Portuguese island.

This glass skywalk offers vertiginous views down the volcanic cliffs to the beach below.

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

When Azorean green tea meets volcanic hot springs water, a luminous brew is born.

This abandoned five-star hotel is now a five-star urban exploration destination.

Legend has it the lovelorn tears of a princess and a shepherd boy formed the blue and green twin lakes in the Azores archipelago.

On the cliffs of São Jorge in the Azores stand the remains of a lighthouse that was struck by a series of earthquakes.