Bélmez de la Moraleda, Spain
Bélmez Faces
Mysterious face-like images that appeared within an Andalusian house are surrounded by legends of the paranormal.
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Bélmez de la Moraleda, Spain
Mysterious face-like images that appeared within an Andalusian house are surrounded by legends of the paranormal.
Barcelona, Spain
For one day every month Barcelona's Estació de França transforms into a market for model trains.
Barcelona, Spain
A fantastic Christmas tradition where defecation meets the manger.
Kortezubi, Spain
An archeological treasure trove stumbled upon by a couple of children.
Piera, Spain
An ornate tower shows off a local artist's architectural flair.
Benidorm, Spain
This 47-story "M" needed 20 years to be completed
Madrid, Spain
A whimsical brother of the nearby Fallen Angel statue takes the falling part quite literally.
Barcelona, Spain
The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.
Manises, Spain
Beautiful tiles decorate many of the town's surfaces and stand testimony to its glorious artistic history.
Pinofranqueado, Spain
Remote, beautiful, and stigmatized, Las Hurdes is Spain's version of Appalachia.
Valencia, Spain
Vibrant street art created with mixed media.
Madrid, Spain
A stone slab in Madrid marks the point from which the distances of Spain's national roads are measured.
Palma, Spain
A contemporary art installation housed within a Gothic cathedral.
Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
The effect of this ancient form of image projection situated atop an 11th century Moorish palace is thrilling.
Baghdad, Iraq
This former monument to an invented Iraqi victory was turned into a military camp during the subsequent invasion.
Baghdad, Iraq
A giant bisected onion dome remembers the Iraqis who died in the Iran-Iraq War.
Sulaymaniyah, Iraq
A bloody history is captured in this former prison turned museum.
Qurna, Iraq
A shrine on the shores of the Tigris.
Baghdad, Iraq
A 605-page Quran penned in the blood of a dictator is locked away in a mosque.
Baghdad, Iraq
A 2200 year old vessel may have been able to keep a charge.
Al-Chibayish, Iraq
Giant reed houses made in the marshes of Southern Iraq.
Erbil, Iraq
An ancient fortified mound raised over the millennia from settlements built one on top of the other.
Samarra, Iraq
9th century Abbasid mosque, damaged in modern warfare.
Al-Shikhan, Iraq
The sacred shrine of the Yazidis.