Places joanamsteixeira Wants to Go

Since 1877, the characters of Sir Walter Scott’s “Ivanhoe” have been keeping time in this Leeds arcade.

Likely the most colorful in the metro network, this mosaic was installed back in 1995.

Remarkably intact Roman stone fortifications have encircled this Spanish city for centuries.

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

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

Park and playground dedicated to one of the most well-known Portuguese-language cartoons

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

Dead weights honor the dead of Portugal's fishing industry.

A monumental palace that began as a stock exchange, became the headquarters of Hungarian Television, and spent years largely unused.

Archeologists can't decide if these two hand-holding skeletons were brothers or lovers.

One of the earliest depictions of an Arthurian scene that is shrouded in mystery.

This beautiful 150-year-old synagogue survived Italy's fascist period and the Second World War.

This ultra-modern burial building would have stacked the dead like a giant filing cabinet.

Once built to revive one of the world's most legendary car brands, this futuristic factory in Italy now stands abandoned as a striking monument to Bugatti's short-lived 1990s comeback.

A 3rd-century Roman villa in Kourion with one of the only mosaics in Cyprus to depict gladiators fighting by name.

Abandoned and overgrown town with views of the Mediterranean Sea.

One of Minoan Crete's most famous images, a crowned, lily-adorned figure striding through a garden, was largely invented in the 1900s from a handful of surviving fragments, and archaeologists still argue about what it actually shows.

This kaleidoscopic structure is perhaps Bristol’s most unusual temple

Hidden under a shopping centre is the genesis of modern Liverpool.

This figure was carved in the likeness of a voyeur, so that every time he spied across the street, he would find only himself staring back.

A memorial to the deadliest terror attack during an unsettled period of Italy’s recent history.

A small waterfall hides in a green gorge on the walk to Skaftafell’s famous basalt-framed cascade.

One of Europe's best-preserved maritime quarantine stations, where thousands of travelers were once isolated to stop deadly epidemics.

Another beautiful spot in the hidden universe of Eames Demetrios.