Portugal's National Pantheon has a history of curses, collapses and financial problems.

Men in rubber-soled boots serve as your "brakes" on this toboggan ride Hemingway described as "exhilarating."

An exquisite collection of fairytale conveyances that puts most car museums to shame.

The corpse bride of Portugal.

The verdant mossy ruins of a Franciscan monastery lie in the remote Sintra hills awaiting exploration.

A stunning 18th-century site where pilgrims ascend by a series of punishing stairs only to return via funicular.

Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.

A unique seaside cave where Aleister Crowley faked his own death.

An ancient and majestic fortress that played an integral role in Portugal's road to independence.

This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

Decorated by local artists, the city's utility boxes have become three-dimensional canvases.

A herd of colorfully painted bovine statues can be found in the middle of "cowtown."

The New Central Library is a masterpiece of contemporary architecture in the midst of downtown Calgary.

With its webbed walls and bright red coloring, Calgary's iconic bridge looks like a finger trap puzzle stretched across the river.

A sleepy little town that had the greatest landslide in North American history fall on it.

The granite head appears to be deep in thought and half buried in the ground.

This natural wonder is disappearing at an alarming rate.

As if T-rex wasn't big enough, this Canadian monument is four times larger than the real thing.

This massive and unusual rock formation near Okotoks is the world's largest known glacial erratic.