Places beefjorky Wants to Go

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”

Entire apothecaries are on display at this Lisbon museum, which explores the history of medicine.

This charming candle shop has been in business since 1789.

This museum contains a vast array of puppets and marionettes from all over the world, featuring incredible works by Portuguese creators.

Little-known artist couple chose a former silk factory as the location for a museum dedicated to their work and other avant-garde art.

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

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

This once-forgotten oasis in the middle of Lisbon was first created over a century ago quite by accident.

Feast on buckets of garlicky snails.

One man's remarkable private collection of art from around the world.

An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.

A garden in Lisbon filled with giant porcelain creatures.

This little-known national museum houses over 40,000 works of art from across the world.

An exquisite collection of fairytale conveyances that puts most car museums to shame.

Eat the ultimate iteration of Portugal's most beloved pastry.

This oddly shaped church resembles a rocket.

A unique seaside cave where Aleister Crowley faked his own death.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

An ancient and majestic fortress that played an integral role in Portugal's road to independence.

The verdant mossy ruins of a Franciscan monastery lie in the remote Sintra hills awaiting exploration.

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

In Portugal, a secluded stretch of untouched natural beauty hides at the bottom of a steep hill.