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The four-story mural is the centerpiece of a lavish hotel's lush atrium.

The camera-toting gargoyle juts out from the exterior of a Gothic cathedral.

Nature puts on a spectacular show at this blowhole on the eastern side of Gran Canaria.

These ungulates have quite literally bounced back from the brink of extinction.

A small house in Tazones, completely covered in shells.

Indigenous cultures believed all life would end if this enormous rock toppled.

These wooden balconies that are both decorative and functional.

Behind this unmarked facade lies the original bomba—a crunchy orb of fried mashed potatoes stuffed with minced meat.

An uninhabited village that preserves and documents rural architecture and an endangered way of life.

This historical manor is complete with a magnificent garden.

An ornate tower shows off a local artist's architectural flair.

Locals use these rock pools and waterfalls for swimming and cliff diving.

The cathedral of a controversial, conservative, schismatic sect that declared the Catholic Church heretical and founded its own succession of popes.

"Satisfying" is a good way to describe these beautifully aligned rows of Spanish mills.

This mountaintop observatory is home to one of the world's largest reflective telescopes.

This underwater graveyard commemorates a group of murdered 16th-century missionaries.

A modernist church in an ancient village.

A centuries-old bar once frequented by Picasso, Hemingway, and Dalí.

These primitive rock paintings include a very beloved depiction of a woolly mammoth.

This 19th-century fountain's namesake animal isn't what you think it is.

A spectacular walk on the flank of a gorge.

12th-century holy complex shares land with a natural park full of heavenly waterfalls and raptors.

According to the Guanches, the aboriginal people of the Canary Islands, the king of evil lives inside this volcano.

A breathtaking and biodiverse wilderness in the mountain setting of Ernest Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls."