Places akiraa1 Wants to Go

A neolithic tomb converted into a tiny chapel.

As the highest point in the Mid-Atlantic range this stratovolcano offers spectacular views.

Pagan monument converted to Christianity with the population.

Come for the bread-themed puppet show, stay for the buffet.

Nestled in the mountains of Portugal is a tiny village made almost entirely of schist.

These small, triangular, colorful houses are a staple of Madeira Island.

This glass skywalk offers vertiginous views down the volcanic cliffs to the beach below.

A fortress off the West coast of Portugal that dates back to 1502.

When this former hospital pharmacy closed in 2013 it already looked like a museum, so they turned it into one.

Rainwater transformed this old quarry into a peaceful pond you won't find in most tourist books.

The medieval town's star-shaped walls are geometrically dazzling, though not entirely impenetrable.

An honorary saint of the people, Maria Adelaide became an incorrupt corpse, the clothes intact, exhaling “a strong scent of roses.”

Portugal’s highest lighthouse has one of the most impressive focal planes in the world.

This oddly shaped church resembles a rocket.

Iron Age runes and ruins hide in plain sight along this Portuguese beach.

In addition to showing films, this one-screen arthouse cinema from the late 1940s is a museum of old film equipment.

A micronation on an islet along the coast of a Portuguese island.

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

After the owner of this Art Nouveau home died, it was turned into a museum displaying a lifetime dedicated to art.

An abandoned tuberculosis hospital said to be haunted by the patients who died within its walls.

A cluster of granite granaries perched on stilts.

This unique architectural wonder is also tied to one of the 20th-century's most renowned writers.

A windswept necropolis carved into the rocks overlooks the "most Portuguese town in Portugal."

This star-shaped military outpost is now simply trying to protect itself from neglect.