This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

This charming candle shop has been in business since 1789.

This unique architectural wonder is also tied to one of the 20th-century's most renowned writers.

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

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.

This tile-work piece featuring a chicken riding in carriage is both a remarkable artistic creation and a social commentary of politics and culture in 17th-century Portugal.

An exquisite collection of fairytale conveyances that puts most car museums to shame.

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

Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

This legendary roadside attraction feels like a bizarre mirage, 101 kilometers outside the resort city of Eilat.

This glass skywalk offers vertiginous views down the volcanic cliffs to the beach below.

A shrine-like museum entirely dedicated to soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo.

A lush oasis full of vibrant plants and striking geometric displays.

Opened in 1976, this monster-sized version of the fast-food franchise is sometimes called the Epic McD.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.

A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

An eccentric Victorian aristocrat's enormous collection of medieval armor and weapons from around the world.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.