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The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

A striking eight-story-high obelisk perched on a coastal California cliff.

Experience Larry Spring's self-taught "common sense" laws of physics.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

Climb 200 stairs up the tallest lighthouse on the West Coast for an unbeatable view.

The first public library in the Americas has more than 45,000 books dating back to the 15th century.

This archaeological site features an early version of today’s refrigerators.

An ancient Roman theatre restored to its former glory in the Spanish city of Cartegena.

A reproduction of the famous prehistoric cave paintings is hidden underground at the National Archaeological Museum.

One of Madrid's oldest trees, with a long and colorful history, resides in El Retiro Park.

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

An iconic and controversial ancient Iberian funerary urn with a hauntingly penetrating gaze.

On the wall of this medieval walkway, a symbol of the Spanish Inquisition.

Moorish signal station on a stratgic rocky outcrop.

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

Rare karst landscape eroded from a flat seabed.

This fascinating and poignant museum chronicles every imaginable aspect of Spanish colonialism in the Americas.

A beautiful little museum hidden away in the heart of Barcelona holds a treasure trove of Ancient Egyptian artifacts

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

Earth's rocky history has rarely glittered so brightly as it does in this Spanish museum.

An exact replica of a colossal Olmec head sits atop a pyramid within a Madrid traffic circle.

Among the oldest structures in Madrid, these Moorish walls once guarded the medieval city of Mayrit.

A 16th-century Andalusian palace.

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