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Translating as "The Jump of the Girlfriend," this stunning waterfall has a tragic legend behind it.

A pastry shop specializing in Sephardic sweets serves historic recipes in Ribadavia’s Jewish quarter.

This overlooked museum houses an amazing collection of rare, antique typewriters.

A Romanesque tower appears when water levels drop.

Village situated on a narrow volcanic escarpment.

Wonderland replication in progress by one persistent man.

A darkly erotic open-air statuary in Catalonia.

A well-preserved medieval village nested on a rocky outcrop and surrounded by a network of cliffs, natural bridges and canyons.

A centuries-old quest to create artificial life is alive and well in the French town of Limoux.

See and taste one of the oldest and rarest collections of Armagnacs in the world.

An abandoned nightclub has become a vibrant work of art.

A castle-like sea fort from the 17th century is now a museum to oyster farming.

A quarry cum sculpture park where the works of art are chiseled into the very walls.

A Spanish forest is filled with mysterious stone carvings.

Kissing the ass of this stone lioness has become a rite of passage in the city of Girona.

Designed by Gustave Eiffel before his famed tower.

At the foot of a waterfall lies a peaceful swimming lagoon and evidence of over 60,000 years of human habitation.

This statue by a foremost African sculptor presents the leader in Haiti's independence struggle as a heroic figure contemplating his fledgling nation's constitution.

A massive base for the Nazis' most formidable weapon in the Atlantic.

Abandoned blockhouses from Nazi Germany's Atlantic Wall erode into the sea on a French beach.

This crack in France's seaside cliffs once hid a sinister secret.

The deserted pirate-themed restaurant still entices explorers.

A massively oversized measuring tape sculpture sits inside a hidden yard.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.