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A chunk of the "true cross" is held in this small Portuguese church where modern day exorcisms are said to be common place.

A windswept necropolis carved into the rocks overlooks the "most Portuguese town in Portugal."

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

Before this rocky hill was home to a chapel, it was used as a lookout by Romans and Moors.

This unassuming chapel in Portugal plays host to a ghoulish collection of bones.

Perhaps the most spectacular grotto along the Algarve coastline.

On a trail in Portugal's Barão de São João National Forest, a pile of faces look up at hikers from the forest floor.

Religious dwelling in a Spanish volcano.

A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

Hundreds of stone stairs and a winding medieval bridge connect this haunting Spanish island to the mainland.

The stunning interior of this Gothic church is covered in ornate gold details.

This "cursed house" features secret rooms, hidden vaults, and dark escape tunnels.

The splendor of this 17th century golden chapel has led it to be called the "eighth wonder of the world."

Psychedelic murals coat the inside of a nondescript research library.

The burial place of some of Mexico's most prominent residents is full of macabre stories and hidden masonic symbols.

A disquieting Aztec sculpture displays hundreds of stone skulls representing the victims of human sacrifice.

A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.

This cave in the heart of La Mancha is full of esoteric secrets.

Remote, beautiful, and stigmatized, Las Hurdes is Spain's version of Appalachia.

A display of torture devices used in the Spanish Inquisition and other scourges of medieval Europe.

Once the grandest synagogue in medieval Spain, it now stands as a memorial of the 15th-century Jewish exile.

An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.

This little-known national museum houses over 40,000 works of art from across the world.