Places frankienerini Wants to Go

An unassuming music museum recounts the rags to riches story of a dramatic Portuguese genre.

This tile-work piece featuring a chicken riding in carriage is both a remarkable artistic creation and a social commentary of politics and culture in 17th-century Portugal.

A garden in Lisbon filled with giant porcelain creatures.

The unexpectedly beloved remnants of a controversial thermal power plant.

One of Antoni Gaudí’s earliest buildings, built between 1886 and 1890 for the industrialist Eusebi Güell.

A former steam-powered mill from the 1800s is now an industrial park with a giant steel dragon slide.

A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.

The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.

An unusual stroll through gentlemen's erotica demonstrates that pornography is timeless.

Step inside the first house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, considered to be one of the first Art Nouveau buildings.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

Rare karst landscape eroded from a flat seabed.

Bold black and white motifs of life and death add a dramatic flair to this 17th-century crypt.

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.

Dine on Hungarian-Jewish dishes at this multigenerational, family-run institution.

A tribute to the builder(s) of Bitcoin.

A relic of World War I that now exist as a piece of public art.

A diminutive statue that was inspired by the sculptor's own daughter.

The holes in this wall provide a glimpse into Jewish life in Budapest, both past and present.

A triumphant marble and bronze fountain depicting a 15th-century Hungarian king and his hunting party.

The true meaning behind this sculpture remains unknown.

The metal leaves on this tree are engraved with the names of Holocaust victims.

A collection of intricate sculptures so small they have to be seen through a microscope.

A random tree outside a Budapest hotel has become a DIY shrine to the late singer.