Places ARJR Wants to Go

An abandoned mining complex in Serra do Gerês.

An abandoned anti-smuggling station decays along the boundary between Portugal and Spain.

This abandoned fortress still stands guard over the Guadiana River despite a history of warfare.

Some 4,000 individual tiles make up this striking blue billboard from the golden age of air travel.

The crumbling ruins of an abandoned 12th-century monastery.

A devasting 2020 fire left this historic seminary in ruins.

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

A glacial valley filled with silver beech trees in the mountains of Portugal.

This Portuguese bullring is built right into the caldera of an island volcano.

This enigmatic Roman tower lurks just outside Belmonte.

This museum is home to one of the biggest collections of printing press technology—plus a river view.

These rock drawings in the Côa Valley also create an ancient optical illusion.

One artist's collection of homemade handicrafts doubles as a monument to 20th-century material culture.

An architectural gem nestled into a promontory overlooking a prehistoric landscape.

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

The walls of this small village have been turned into a living street art gallery.

Panoramic views from the mountains over a facility built to provide tuberculosis patients with fresh mountain air.

This historic streetcar system has been running since the 19th-century.

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

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

An 11th-century medieval castle cascades over the town of Numão.

The ancient sauropod tracks found in this former quarry are some of the largest in the world.

An ancient tomb that still stands in Portugal.

A chunk of the "true cross" is held in this small Portuguese church where modern day exorcisms are said to be common place.