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A hidden medieval crypt where a famous legend says the devil used to teach black magic.

Spain's stunning solar energy plant.

This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.

A submerged village appears when dam levels drop.

Perhaps the most spectacular grotto along the Algarve coastline.

Local lore says the devil built this beautiful medieval bridge to help a fleeing bandit.

This unassuming chapel in Portugal plays host to a ghoulish collection of bones.

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

Blue-green pools and smooth stones comprise one of Spain’s most idyllic hidden wonders.

Hidden underground, a remarkable 10th-century bath complex survives virtually unaltered.

Iron Age runes and ruins hide in plain sight along this Portuguese beach.

These rock drawings in the Côa Valley also create an ancient optical illusion.

An 11th-century medieval castle cascades over the town of Numão.

An early work of the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, these swimming pools blend into the beach.

An abandoned mine now resembles a post-apocalyptic landscape of derelict buildings and blood-red pools of water.

An abandoned tuberculosis hospital said to be haunted by the patients who died within its walls.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

Ancient catacombs form the foundation for this Rococo orgy of a church.

Remote, beautiful, and stigmatized, Las Hurdes is Spain's version of Appalachia.

Picturesque intersection of witchcraft and ancient Christianity.

One of the few places in Portugal where the Celtic ritual of wearing large wooden masks is still practiced.

One of the world’s longest pedestrian suspension bridges.

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

The largest medieval water tank on the Iberian Peninsula is preserved beneath the Cáceres Museum.