This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.

This medieval "painted village" is famous for its geometric facades.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

Legend has it the lovelorn tears of a princess and a shepherd boy formed the blue and green twin lakes in the Azores archipelago.

This impressive rupestrian engraving dates back to the Upper Palaeolithic period.

One Portuguese poet described this cape, the westernmost point in mainland Europe, as "where the land ends and the sea begins."

Men in rubber-soled boots serve as your "brakes" on this toboggan ride Hemingway described as "exhilarating."

The corpse bride of Portugal.

One of the largest Roman settlements in Portugal.

A stunning 18th-century site where pilgrims ascend by a series of punishing stairs only to return via funicular.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

A small etching on the white marble parapet was written in runic script by a Viking mercenary.

Quite possibly the oldest love poem known to humankind.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

This stunning iron gate designed by Modernist architect Antoni Gaudí is filled with mythic symbolism.

Mountain where Jesus was first tempted by the Devil.

Step inside the first house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, considered to be one of the first Art Nouveau buildings.

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

A student driver's nightmare.