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The medieval castle built as headquarters for the Pope's secretive Knights Templar.

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

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

The verdant mossy ruins of a Franciscan monastery lie in the remote Sintra hills awaiting exploration.

An ancient and majestic fortress that played an integral role in Portugal's road to independence.

This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”

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

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

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

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

A seaside cemetery honors the Commonwealth soldiers and sailors that died in Sierra Leone during World War I and II.

This river island in Sierra Leone is home to impressive biodiversity and the country's first community conservation program.

In one of the smallest countries in the world stands an original Salvador Dalí sculpture.

You can still walk across this beautiful medieval bridge in Andorra.

Some of the smallest works of art in existence.

This gorgeous, colorful 18th-century church is part of one of Bolivia's few surviving Jesuit missions.

Museum dedicated to the sacred leaf of the Andes.

Astronomical observatory above Lake Titicaca.

Mysterious Incan ruins on a tiny island in Lake Titicaca.

Bolivia's needle-like rock formations.

This red lake 4,000 meters above sea level is home to rare flamingos.

Dating back roughly 240 million years to the Triassic period, it was left by a large, 12-foot-long crocodile ancestor called a Chirotherium or "hand-beast".

An indoor botanical garden for tropical plants looks like a giant cylinder lying on its side.

This unique landscape is the only place in the world to dig for hourglass-selenite crystals.