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Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

Get in line for Lisbon’s most famous sandwich.

This architectural beauty is the home to a personal collection of more than 600 examples of mechanical musical instruments.

Pagan monument converted to Christianity with the population.

A neolithic tomb converted into a tiny chapel.

This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.

Spanning the El Chorro gorge, this pathway used to be one of the most dangerous crossings in the world.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

The wreckage of a tragic plane crash is on display at this museum devoted to a famous Italian conspiracy.

This gallery commissioned by Cardinal Spada is known for its magnificent optical illusion.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

These enigmatic columns tower over the ruins of an ancient Toltec city.

Twelve natural mummies are displayed in the crypt of this former monastery school.

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

The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.

This unique bridge curls up like a caterpillar to let boats pass and then unfurls again to span a small canal.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

This Navarrese cave's history of witchcraft and pagan ritual is not just embraced, but recreated each year.

A site where “the ravages of the war are more striking…than any other place in contemporary Spain.”

Holy Grotto of Montserrat Monastery holds one of Europe's mysterious black Madonnas.