Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Botafumeiro
This enormous censer uses a pulley system installed over 400 years ago.
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Santiago de Compostela, Spain
This enormous censer uses a pulley system installed over 400 years ago.
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
An accidental trick of light casts the perfect shadow of a pilgrim of the Camino de Santiago against the cathedral wall.
A Coruña, Spain
The oldest Roman lighthouse still in use.
Estella, Spain
A landscape decorated with enormous skull sculptures.
Madrid, Spain
The oldest restaurant in the world is this old-world Spanish eatery, still known for its suckling pig.
Celebration, Florida
Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.
Key West, Florida
The island residents are known for taking their quirky sense of humor with them to the grave.
Key West, Florida
"We Seceded Where Others Failed."
Clermont, Florida
An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions, just west of Orlando.
North Fort Myers, Florida
The largest retailer of seashells in the world.
Titusville, Florida
A building so large that it has its own weather.
Key Largo, Florida
The famous boat that once ferried Bogart and Hepburn still floats in Key Largo after being abandoned for years.
Key West, Florida
A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.
St. Augustine, Florida
A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.
Lake Helen, Florida
Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.
Key West, Florida
The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.
Lake Wales, Florida
Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.
Athens, Georgia
After just one epic test blast, this literal loose cannon proved too explosive for combat.
Elberton, Georgia
Home of Dutchy, an exhumed Confederate statue that was once torn down by an angry mob for looking stupid.
Savannah, Georgia
This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."
Ashburn, Georgia
A massive tribute to this small county's top agricultural product.
Warm Springs, Georgia
FDR hoped to find a cure for polio in this Georgia town's warm springs.
Marietta, Georgia
This abstract roadside poultry was saved from demolition by outraged drivers and pilots.
Helen, Georgia
This lovely burial mound is actually a replica that was installed after archeologists excavated the original.