Lisbon, Portugal
Santa Justa Lift
This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”
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Lisbon, Portugal
This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”
Braga, Portugal
A stunning 18th-century site where pilgrims ascend by a series of punishing stairs only to return via funicular.
Porto, Portugal
This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.
Lisbon, Portugal
A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.
Lagoa, Portugal
Perhaps the most spectacular grotto along the Algarve coastline.
Faro, Portugal
This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.
Sintra, Portugal
This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.
Évora, Portugal
A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.
Porto, Portugal
One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.
Krakow, Poland
Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.
Warsaw, Poland
Warsaw's fantastically preserved gasworks...almost.
Warsaw, Poland
This enormous 32-foot painting depicts Poland's greatest medieval battle in glorious detail.
Gdańsk, Poland
This antique thermometer honors the creator of the first universal temperature scale.
Gdańsk, Poland
A mysterious emblem tucked in an small alleyway is actually the coat of arms of a heroic medieval family.
Warsaw, Poland
The final resting place of more than 200,000 people, this is one of the largest cemeteries in Europe.
Aurland, Norway
Longest road tunnel in the world features an air treatment plant and the illusion of daylight.
Oslo, Norway
This handsomely carved wooden church is more than 800 years old.
Zaandam, Netherlands
This windmill has been grinding pigments for traditional paints for more than 200 years.
Rotterdam, Netherlands
These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
A poignant museum dedicated to the history of the Dutch resistance against Nazi occupation
Amsterdam, Netherlands
This museum housed in a former brothel explores the past and present of sex work in Amsterdam.
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Cemetery honors Americans who died during WWII and is the resting place of Gen. George S. Patton.
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
This small chapel built into rock is the oldest place of worship in Luxembourg.
Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein's royal family calls this medieval alpine castle home.