Hidden beneath a beautiful overlook you’ll find the history of the city depicted in comic strip format next to a pay toilet.

A unique seaside cave where Aleister Crowley faked his own death.

In Portugal, a secluded stretch of untouched natural beauty hides at the bottom of a steep hill.

Perhaps the most spectacular grotto along the Algarve coastline.

Before this rocky hill was home to a chapel, it was used as a lookout by Romans and Moors.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

An early work of the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, these swimming pools blend into the beach.

Bordered by forest on three sides and the ocean on the other, the Great Dune of Pilat is the highest sand dune in Europe.

Every half hour, the flow of this unusual spring cycles between a rush of water and barely a trickle.

Green labyrinth formed by a karstic maze hidden in a preserved oak forest.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

On the grounds of a former estate in Burgundy stands an elaborate temple that is modeled after the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery.

This building’s ghostly exterior reflects its former lives as a prison, school, and funeral home.

Wander among free-roaming storks at the sanctuary that helped save them from local extinction.

The castle was reconstructed to fit Kaiser Wilhelm II's romanticized vision of the Middle Ages.

A copy of the Statue of Liberty greets visitors to the birthplace of Auguste Bartholdi.

A bike train runs along a disused railway line through the tranquil French countryside.

A mosaic-tiled house built by graveyard sweeper Raymond Isidore.

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."

This impressive chasm is one of the longest natural underground cavities in the world.

An enchanting work of outsider art, full of whimsical sculptures and carvings.