Places ARJR Wants to Go

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

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.

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

A neolithic tomb converted into a tiny chapel.

One of the few places in Portugal where the Celtic ritual of wearing large wooden masks is still practiced.

Pagan monument converted to Christianity with the population.

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

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

A 19th-century mansion houses the largest collection of gin in the European Union.

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

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

Europe's oldest still-operational tea farm also boasts a spectacular view.

One of the world’s longest pedestrian suspension bridges.

A small but charming botanical garden that contains many exotic plant species.

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

"Portugal's Stonehenge" is made up of nut-like stones aligned with the heavens.

A perfectly circular lake is formed by the crater of an ancient underwater volcano.

This abandoned five-star hotel is now a five-star urban exploration destination.

An abandoned mine now resembles a post-apocalyptic landscape of derelict buildings and blood-red pools of water.

Ancient catacombs form the foundation for this Rococo orgy of a church.

When Azorean green tea meets volcanic hot springs water, a luminous brew is born.

A small Portuguese cottage formed between boulders in the countryside.

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.