Places daniellecavuoti Wants to Go

This crumbling Portuguese ruin overlooks the populace it once ruled.

Get in line for Lisbon’s most famous sandwich.

One of the world’s longest pedestrian suspension bridges.

Sip cherry liqueur at a bar dating back to 1840.

Local lore says the devil built this beautiful medieval bridge to help a fleeing bandit.

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

Dead weights honor the dead of Portugal's fishing industry.

A small Portuguese cottage formed between boulders in the countryside.

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

At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.

Catering to broken dolls for almost 200 years, this repair shop is now a charnel house of doll parts.

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

A stunning 18th-century site where pilgrims ascend by a series of punishing stairs only to return via funicular.

The medieval castle built as headquarters for the Pope's secretive Knights Templar.

This unassuming chapel in Portugal plays host to a ghoulish collection of bones.

Located in the thermoelectric factory that once powered the entire city, this Portuguese museum is shockingly fascinating.

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

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

Picturesque intersection of witchcraft and ancient Christianity.

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

An early work of the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, these swimming pools blend into the beach.

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

The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.

A submerged village appears when dam levels drop.