Alcoy, Spain
La Sarga Cave Paintings
These 7,000-year-old cave paintings depict life in Neolithic Spain.
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Alcoy, Spain
These 7,000-year-old cave paintings depict life in Neolithic Spain.
Játiva, Spain
This portrait of Philip V is always hung upside down, in a protest three centuries in the making.
Banyeres de Mariola, Spain
An archaeological museum squeezed into a narrow 15th-century gate tower accessed only by a spiral staircase.
Teguise, Spain
The chefs at El Diablo use heat generated by an active volcano to cook the food.
Pensacola, Florida
A Grand Dame of the vaudeville circuit restored to its former glory.
Pensacola, Florida
The "worst battleship ever built" is enjoying a grand second act, submerged 30 feet in the Gulf of Mexico.
Willemstad, Curaçao
Shipwrecks, ruins, and turtles are all that remain on this haunting Caribbean ghost island.
Hamburg, Germany
Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.
Pensacola, Florida
The 44,000-ton aircraft carrier was purposely sunk to create an artificial reef teeming with life.
Frederick, Maryland
A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.
Delta, Louisiana
The ill-fated plan to reroute the Mississippi so that Union ships could bypass Confederate fortifications on the river bend.
Nederland, Texas
A replica of a Dutch windmill in honor of those who settled in the region from the Netherlands.
Hertford, England
Believed to be the largest single-stemmed oak tree in England.
Kelowna, British Columbia
Unlike many reclaimed, abandoned mines, this Canadian cave system is still just a dangerous maze.
Belle Rose, Louisiana
This sinkhole was created by a tragic industrial accident and continues to ravage the surrounding landscape.
York, South Carolina
During the American Revolutionary War, iron excavated from this mine was used to make swords, cannons, and more.
Cuenca, Spain
Two large eyes painted anonymously on a mountain overlooking the city pay homage to an old legend.
Montalbo, Spain
The lasting remains of an airfield used during the Spanish Civil War.
Consuegra, Spain
This line of 12 tower mills described in the story of Don Quixote is among the most iconic landscapes in Spain.
Numão, Portugal
An 11th-century medieval castle cascades over the town of Numão.
Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain
1,300 chamber pots and their eccentric collector.
La Alberca, Spain
An ongoing medieval tradition of communal pig husbandry is honored with a handsome granite sculpture.
Pinofranqueado, Spain
Remote, beautiful, and stigmatized, Las Hurdes is Spain's version of Appalachia.
Esperança, Portugal
You can cross from one country to another in a single hop on this little bridge.