Once used to calculate the various levels around the country.

Continental Europe's only museum devoted to salt and pepper shakers features more than 20,000 designs.

The last of three massive blast furnaces that were once at the foundation of the Port of Sagunto economy.

You don't have to be a professional jockey to ride in Britain's oldest horse race.

Legend has it this 11th-century castle was paid a visit from the devil.

This mummified mermaid corpse is an aquatic curio that was eventually revealed to be a fake.

This quirky shop on a former farm is full of weird and wonderful oddities and antiques.

This bridge later moonlighted as a local jail.

Don't be fooled by this fake medieval facade even if it is almost 300 years old.

This ancient fort overlooks the site of a disastrous retreat from the English Civil War.

The designer of this railway tunnel added a birthday present for himself.

This section of the Kennet and Avon Canal has been designated the same level of heritage protection as Stonehenge.

The vibrant buildings in the “capital of the comic strip” celebrate the art form that made it famous.

A medieval village holds a very modern hotel.

Salaguti's live-in museum: a fortress against criticism and consumer art.

The cave where Saint Genadio meditated and played chess.

This Gallo-Roman sanctuary is dedicated to Serápis, god of the underworld.

In Spain, the ruins of a Roman military camp sit along a flooded section of a river.

The oldest Roman lighthouse still in use.

The remains of an encyclopedic sculpture garden later used as an internment camp.

This small commune with an even smaller name appears to have an unlikely amount of dead ancestors.

A public park off the beaten path with a beautiful waterfall and 13th century Cistercian abbey.

What if all public housing projects had been designed by "the Pygmalion of modern architecture," not only their prototype?

This little train station is forever immortalized in film history.