Alicante, Spain
Alicante Zero Level
Once used to calculate the various levels around the country.
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Alicante, Spain
Once used to calculate the various levels around the country.
Wamba, Spain
One of the largest ossuaries in Spain is packed from floor to ceiling with bones.
Cáceres, Spain
A strange anthropomorphic stele with a mysterious inscription that has never been deciphered.
Palencia, Spain
The camera-toting gargoyle juts out from the exterior of a Gothic cathedral.
Funchal, Portugal
Crafted from ocean litter, this sculpture highlights the ills of overconsumption.
Nazaré, Portugal
A deer-headed statue that brings together a 12th-century legend and big wave surfing.
Reguengo do Fetal, Portugal
Some 4,000 individual tiles make up this striking blue billboard from the golden age of air travel.
Viana do Castelo, Portugal
This ship offers visitors the chance to spend the night aboard a former floating hospital for fishermen.
Marvão, Portugal
An abandoned anti-smuggling station decays along the boundary between Portugal and Spain.
Barrenta, Portugal
The walls of this small village have been turned into a living street art gallery.
Porto, Portugal
This historic streetcar system has been running since the 19th-century.
Santo Amaro, Portugal
This Portuguese bullring is built right into the caldera of an island volcano.
Vila Nova de Foz Côa, Portugal
These rock drawings in the Côa Valley also create an ancient optical illusion.
Covilha, Portugal
Panoramic views from the mountains over a facility built to provide tuberculosis patients with fresh mountain air.
Portugal
For more than two centuries, the canopy of this venerable tree has been a haven for songbirds and lovers.
Vila Nova de Foz Côa, Portugal
This impressive rupestrian engraving dates back to the Upper Palaeolithic period.
Câmara de Lobos, Portugal
This glass skywalk offers vertiginous views down the volcanic cliffs to the beach below.
Fátima, Portugal
The ancient sauropod tracks found in this former quarry are some of the largest in the world.
Lisbon, Portugal
This oddly shaped church resembles a rocket.
Colares, Portugal
One Portuguese poet described this cape, the westernmost point in mainland Europe, as "where the land ends and the sea begins."
Santana, Portugal
These small, triangular, colorful houses are a staple of Madeira Island.
Portugal
A chunk of the "true cross" is held in this small Portuguese church where modern day exorcisms are said to be common place.
Penela da Beira, Portugal
An ancient tomb that still stands in Portugal.
Lisbon, Portugal
This unique architectural wonder is also tied to one of the 20th-century's most renowned writers.