Places Hennie Wants to Go

Pagan monument converted to Christianity with the population.

Building owners can take out tiles for free at this repository for historic building materials.

Portugal’s highest lighthouse has one of the most impressive focal planes in the world.

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

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

Hidden beneath a beautiful overlook you’ll find the history of the city depicted in comic strip format next to a pay toilet.

An honorary saint of the people, Maria Adelaide became an incorrupt corpse, the clothes intact, exhaling “a strong scent of roses.”

The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.

Portugal's National Pantheon has a history of curses, collapses and financial problems.

One of the largest Roman settlements in Portugal.

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

A cluster of granite granaries perched on stilts.

This star-shaped military outpost is now simply trying to protect itself from neglect.

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

Elaborate tile work in this railway station tells the story of Portugal.

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

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

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

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

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

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

This charming candle shop has been in business since 1789.

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

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