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An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

It's believed this golden brick is part of the legendary lost Aztec treasure.

The last home designed in its entirety by noted architect Luis Barragán owes its existence to an impressive jacaranda tree.

This incredible college library is a visual masterpiece of mosaic art. It also looks kind of like a giant boombox.

The only castle in North America to ever house European sovereigns.

Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.

66,000 pieces of art, donated by one of the world's richest men.

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses connected by a bridge.

This unique architectural wonder is also tied to one of the 20th-century's most renowned writers.

Get in line for Lisbon’s most famous sandwich.

One man's remarkable private collection of art from around the world.

Eat the ultimate iteration of Portugal's most beloved pastry.

This once-forgotten oasis in the middle of Lisbon was first created over a century ago quite by accident.

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

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

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

This balancing rock is one of Utah's most unusual geological formations.

The damming of the Colorado River buried an iconic geologic formation before record-breaking drought brought it back.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

Venice's island of the dead.

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.