Building owners can take out tiles for free at this repository for historic building materials.

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

This giant sculpture made of trash is a critique of society's wastefulness.

Elaborate tile work in this railway station tells the story of Portugal.

In Portugal, a larger-than-life painting of America's first Black female firefighter.

Perhaps the most spectacular grotto along the Algarve coastline.

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

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

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

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

This charming candle shop has been in business since 1789.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

A popular winter vacation destination for migrating monarch butterflies.

This little gem of Spanish Colonial architecture has been abandoned since the 1950s.

The beautiful behemoth is one of the largest trees of its kind in the United States.

For over 20 years, Lil Toot has delighted guests with narrated boat rides between Stearns Wharf and Santa Barbara Harbor, becoming a beloved local legend and top-rated experience for visitors.

At 130 years old and 126 feet tall, it is the largest known example of the rare Torrey pine tree.

The Ortega family started their iconic food company in this small, adobe kitchen.

Was there a small "backpack nuke" hidden in the attic? JFK apparently thought so.

This sandwich shop has a century-old elevator behind a sheet of plexiglass.

The fountains of the U.S. Navy Memorial are annually salted with water from the Seven Seas as part of a nautical ritual.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

A bas relief commemorates the "Nuns of the Battlefield" who cared for soldiers on both sides of the conflict.