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A 1992 blurry image of a woman.

Bélmez de la Moraleda, Spain

Bélmez Faces

Mysterious face-like images that appeared within an Andalusian house are surrounded by legends of the paranormal.

Vendors at the model train market

Barcelona, Spain

Model Train Market at Estació de França

For one day every month Barcelona's Estació de França transforms into a market for model trains.

El Caganer

Barcelona, Spain

El Caganer

A fantastic Christmas tradition where defecation meets the manger.

The gate of Santimamiñe Cave

Kortezubi, Spain

Cueva de Santimamiñe (Santimamiñe Cave)

An archeological treasure trove stumbled upon by a couple of children.

Temple dels Homes

Piera, Spain

Temple dels Homes

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

Intempo by the sea.

Benidorm, Spain

Intempo Building

This 47-story "M" needed 20 years to be completed

Air Crash.

Madrid, Spain

Air Crash

A whimsical brother of the nearby Fallen Angel statue takes the falling part quite literally.

Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (Barcelona)

Barcelona, Spain

Sant Pau Recinte Modernista

The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.

The beautiful tiles of Manises.

Manises, Spain

The Ceramics of Manises

Beautiful tiles decorate many of the town's surfaces and stand testimony to its glorious artistic history.

A resident of Las Hurdes.

Pinofranqueado, Spain

Las Hurdes

Remote, beautiful, and stigmatized, Las Hurdes is Spain's version of Appalachia.

The street art of El Carmen, Valencia.

Valencia, Spain

El Carme Street Art

Vibrant street art created with mixed media.

Kilometre Zero

Madrid, Spain

Kilometre Zero

A stone slab in Madrid marks the point from which the distances of Spain's national roads are measured.

Installation by Miquel Barceló

Palma, Spain

Miquel Barceló Installation in the Cathedral of Santa Maria de Palma

A contemporary art installation housed within a Gothic cathedral.

Focusing on the Church dome across the way

Jerez de la Frontera, Spain

Camera Obscura at the Alcazar of Jerez de la Frontera

The effect of this ancient form of image projection situated atop an 11th century Moorish palace is thrilling.

Mural of Saddam Hussein at the Victory Over America Palace.

Baghdad, Iraq

Victory Over America Palace

This former monument to an invented Iraqi victory was turned into a military camp during the subsequent invasion.

Al-Shaheed Monument

Baghdad, Iraq

Al-Shaheed Monument

A giant bisected onion dome remembers the Iraqis who died in the Iran-Iraq War.

Amna Suraka administrative building.

Sulaymaniyah, Iraq

Amna Suraka Prison

A bloody history is captured in this former prison turned museum.

The Tree of Knowledge today.

Qurna, Iraq

The Tree of Knowledge

A shrine on the shores of the Tigris.

Baghdad mosque houses Saddam's blood Quran.

Baghdad, Iraq

Saddam Hussein's Blood Quran

A 605-page Quran penned in the blood of a dictator is locked away in a mosque.

Baghdad Battery in the National Museum of Iraq

Baghdad, Iraq

Baghdad Battery in the National Museum of Iraq

A 2200 year old vessel may have been able to keep a charge.

A mudhif house

Al-Chibayish, Iraq

Mudhif Houses

Giant reed houses made in the marshes of Southern Iraq.

Aerial view of the Erbil citadel (also known as Hawler Castle)

Erbil, Iraq

Erbil Citadel

An ancient fortified mound raised over the millennia from settlements built one on top of the other.

(Flickr/james_gordon_los_angeles)

Samarra, Iraq

Great Mosque of Samarra

9th century Abbasid mosque, damaged in modern warfare.

The Lalish shrine.

Al-Shikhan, Iraq

Lalish Temple

The sacred shrine of the Yazidis.

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