The ruins of a 12th-century Cistercian monastery can be found alongside World War II tank traps and pillboxes.

Taste the precursor of peri-peri chicken at this restaurant just outside of Lisbon.

This historic Art Deco building embellished with local tropical fruits had fallen into disrepair before a recent restoration.

Offal and flawless onion soup are on the menu at this restaurant that once catered to the workers of Les Halles.

This spa park features an open-air museum of abstract marble sculptures.

This natural monument has an origin story steeped in legend.

The home of two of Scotland's most important artists has been reassembled in the Hunterian Art Gallery.

The castle used by the Danish Royal Family as a hunting retreat.

Formerly abandoned underground complex to keep royals safe from a nuclear war that never came.

This king penguin is a knighted brigadier of the Norwegian Army.

The luxurious circular mansion built for a Communist leader now lies abandoned.

Hundreds of intricately carved Armenian stone crosses can be found within this huge cemetery.

This little medieval church hidden in the center of Yerevan was lost and rediscovered—twice.

This Armenian monastery was carved out of cliffs and named after the spear used to stab Jesus.

The Roman Emperor's lost summer home and grotto full of enormous sculptures sit along the Italian seashore.

Northern Europe’s largest castle ruins sit precariously on an island cliffside.

These unique markers designate the route American forces took during the Liberation of France.

The remote graves mark the mysterious deaths of four 19th century explorers.

Inside a Scottish castle hangs the tattered remains of a flag with murky origins and supposed magic powers.

This curious gravestone tells the legend of an unknown mariner's grisly murder.

An 18th-century hunting lodge turned haunted Baroque palace.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.