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These unusual paintings give thanks to the saints and deities who granted people favors and miracles.

The former headquarters of Mexico's Secretariat of Public Education now houses a muralism museum, including Diego Rivera's first large-scale mural project.

This tiny, tucked-away eatery reflects the history of Mexico's Lebanese immigrants.

A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.

The island residents are known for taking their quirky sense of humor with them to the grave.

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.

The largest madrasa in Morocco once housed more than 900 students within its exquisite walls.

The oldest monument in Marrakesh and the city's only surviving example of Almoravid architecture.

Hundreds of preserved dinosaur footprints can be found along a hiking trail in this small village.

An out-of-place grove of sequoias thrives in northern Spain.

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

A small church ornamented with medieval erotic sculptures.

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

Stormy conditions send jets of seawater bursting through holes in the cliffs.

A magnificent place to see authentic paleolithic cave paintings that are an astounding 33,000 years old.

A historic Christian shrine nestled within a spectacular natural cave.

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.

A 19th-century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

The romantic garden was the epicenter of the Hungarian art scene in the 1880s.

A marvel of technology a century ago, this disused power station now offers a lovely glimpse into the industrial design of the past.

A forgotten graveyard lost in the tangles of an overgrown garden.

Long before Europeans arrived, Native Americans built an artificial island out of shells that has withstood a millennia of hurricanes.

A prehistoric cave in Spain contains paintings dating back to the Ice Age.

This house covered in art created with volcanic rocks is shrouded in macabre lore.