Venice, Italy
The Mad Colored Houses of Burano
This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.
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Venice, Italy
This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.
Venice, Italy
This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.
Margalef, Spain
An isolated village literally built into the crevices and rock formations of a mountain.
Queens, New York
A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.
Naucalpan, Mexico
This fantastical house shaped like a seashell brings aquatic design to architecture.
Brooklyn, New York
The childhood home of one of America's greatest unsung troubadours still stands in a much changed Brooklyn neighborhood.
Lagoa, Portugal
Perhaps the most spectacular grotto along the Algarve coastline.
Portugal
This gaping hole in the middle of a remote mountain lake looks like a portal to another dimension.
Lisbon, Portugal
This charming candle shop has been in business since 1789.
Sintra, Portugal
This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.
Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal
Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.
Lisbon, Portugal
The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.
Porto, Portugal
One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.
Lisbon, Portugal
Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.
Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain
1,300 chamber pots and their eccentric collector.
Calafell, Spain
Experience this Iron Age village the way that its original residents would have.
Valencia, Spain
From grand battles to daily life, this Spanish museum offers a view of world history in miniature.
Ibi, Spain
Ibi's pioneering toy factory now houses two small but mighty museums.
Castrillo de Murcia, Spain
During an annual Catholic feast in this tiny Spanish village, men dressed as devils leap over rows of babies to cleanse them of sin.
Bélesta, France
Every half hour, the flow of this unusual spring cycles between a rush of water and barely a trickle.
Andorra la Vella, Andorra
In one of the smallest countries in the world stands an original Salvador Dalí sculpture.
Monistrol de Montserrat, Spain
Holy Grotto of Montserrat Monastery holds one of Europe's mysterious black Madonnas.
Bugarach, France
Small French town or alien garage?
La Pobla de Lillet, Spain
Famed architect Antoni Gaudi built this generous thank you gift to a friendly host who housed him during a job.