Portugal
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This gaping hole in the middle of a remote mountain lake looks like a portal to another dimension.
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Portugal
This gaping hole in the middle of a remote mountain lake looks like a portal to another dimension.
Colares, Portugal
In Portugal, a secluded stretch of untouched natural beauty hides at the bottom of a steep hill.
Porto, Portugal
Building owners can take out tiles for free at this repository for historic building materials.
Peniche, Portugal
A fortress off the West coast of Portugal that dates back to 1502.
São Miguel, Portugal
One artist's collection of homemade handicrafts doubles as a monument to 20th-century material culture.
Numão, Portugal
An 11th-century medieval castle cascades over the town of Numão.
Porto, Portugal
A small but charming botanical garden that contains many exotic plant species.
Vila Nova de Foz Côa, Portugal
These rock drawings in the Côa Valley also create an ancient optical illusion.
Lisbon, Portugal
This unique architectural wonder is also tied to one of the 20th-century's most renowned writers.
Warsaw, Poland
This hidden collection of everyday objects illustrates life within communist Poland.
Krakow, Poland
St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.
Warsaw, Poland
The giant statue and its model solar system honor the native Pole who declared that the Earth revolves around the Sun.
Warsaw, Poland
These 18th-century paintings of Warsaw were used to reconstruct the city after World War II.
Warsaw, Poland
Legend says this is actually a heartbroken prince waiting for his true love's kiss.
Warsaw, Poland
One of the world's largest collections of medieval religious art.
Skrzyńsko, Poland
Legend says a giant, venomous spider once dwelled within this Polish church.
Sanok, Poland
An open-air museum of 18th-century homes and churches transported from various villages in Southern Poland.
Warsaw, Poland
Hundreds of notes give thanks to the patron saint of lost causes.
Wrocław, Poland
A 90-ton, gravity-defiant steam locomotive shoots for the skies in this bizarrely beautiful public artwork.
Otwock, Poland
An abandoned Jewish sanatorium is tucked within the woods of Poland.
Krakow, Poland
At first glance, this area seems like just another city park, but the lush landscape hides a dark past.
Warsaw, Poland
The last king of Poland was interred in this church nearly 200 years after his death.
Vågsøy, Norway
Thousands of years of crashing waves gave this mushroom-shaped rock its svelte figure.
Stavanger, Norway
An impressive museum dedicated to the resource that made the Scandinavian country rich.