In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

A hidden three-foot-wide house separates these two regal churches.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

The corpse bride of Portugal.

A deer-headed statue that brings together a 12th-century legend and big wave surfing.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

A series of increasingly larger sundials have grown with this school.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

This cheese shop also houses a museum devoted to Dutch dairy.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

The huge golden reliquary of a testicle-smashing saint.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

Taos Pueblo recipes, foraged ingredients, and outdoor ovens define the menu at this eatery.

This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

One of the last Art Deco gas station still standing in Dallas.

The world's largest floating loon bobs in the lake to kick off an annual festival.