The camera-toting gargoyle juts out from the exterior of a Gothic cathedral.

This stunning iron gate designed by Modernist architect Antoni Gaudí is filled with mythic symbolism.

This colonial town in Colombia sits around the largest stone paved square in South America.

A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.

This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.

Pilgrims each carried a brick to the top of Mount Monserrate to help build this historic sanctuary in Colombia.

Erected in 1803, it is the first astronomical observatory that was built in the Americas.

This Bogotá museum houses the world's largest collection of pre-Columbian gold relics.

A museum built around a bus-sized fossil on the side of the highway.

Sanctuary on a ridge near an ancient shrine to a "Black Madonna" built by the founder of Opus Dei.

This religious complex carved into a cliff is steeped in legends of miraculous stags and the Holy Grail.

12th-century holy complex shares land with a natural park full of heavenly waterfalls and raptors.

An impressive home made of stone, carved more than a century ago.

While you wait to cross the street at a traffic light in Mainz, you might notice that the light is staring back at you.

These magnificent city walls rise from the barren sun-baked Spanish plains like something straight out of a fairytale.

Of the many chalices in the running for the Holy Grail, this one in Valencia Cathedral sure looks the part.

Touching this little fossil embedded in the wall of a grand mosque-cathedral may make your wishes come true.

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

After millennia of erosion by sand and churning water this Brazilian valley now looks like a lunar fantasy.