Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.

This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.

A residential service road transformed into a menagerie of larger-than-life paintings of iconic Arctic wildlife.

These wooden balconies that are both decorative and functional.

This replica of Columbus's famous ship houses the history of La Palma's maritime importance during the Age of Exploration.

A statue commemorating the island's tradition of dancing dwarves in Napoleon hats.

This unique rock formation is quite the local celebrity, although one day it may come crashing down.

According to the Guanches, the aboriginal people of the Canary Islands, the king of evil lives inside this volcano.

An unexpected ghost village lurks on the southeast coast of Tenerife.

This tiny, tranquil Senegalese island serves as a powerful symbol of the Atlantic slave trade.

A windswept necropolis carved into the rocks overlooks the "most Portuguese town in Portugal."

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

A 19th-century architectural masterpiece with ties to Gustave Eiffel.

Catering to broken dolls for almost 200 years, this repair shop is now a charnel house of doll parts.

Sip cherry liqueur at a bar dating back to 1840.

This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

Eat the ultimate iteration of Portugal's most beloved pastry.

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

An architectural relic that survived the hands of time.

This remarkably well-preserved mosque stands amid an 11th-century caravansary.

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

One of the two original gateways into the Kasbah, this gateway is a nesting site for storks.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.