Porto, Portugal
Museu Nacional da Imprensa (National Press Museum)
This museum is home to one of the biggest collections of printing press technology—plus a river view.
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Porto, Portugal
This museum is home to one of the biggest collections of printing press technology—plus a river view.
Porto, Portugal
Building owners can take out tiles for free at this repository for historic building materials.
Porto, Portugal
A small but charming botanical garden that contains many exotic plant species.
Porto, Portugal
Ancient catacombs form the foundation for this Rococo orgy of a church.
Porto, Portugal
This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.
Porto, Portugal
The stunning interior of this Gothic church is covered in ornate gold details.
Porto, Portugal
One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.
Lisbon, Portugal
In addition to showing films, this one-screen arthouse cinema from the late 1940s is a museum of old film equipment.
Lisbon, Portugal
One of the smallest bookstores on the planet.
Lisbon, Portugal
The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.
Lisbon, Portugal
A garden in Lisbon filled with giant porcelain creatures.
Lisbon, Portugal
This once-forgotten oasis in the middle of Lisbon was first created over a century ago quite by accident.
Lisbon, Portugal
This charming candle shop has been in business since 1789.
Lisbon, Portugal
The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.
Lisbon, Portugal
Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.
Genoa, Italy
Although called a funicular by both its owner and the locals this historic railroad is actually a rack and pinion system.
Genoa, Italy
Once home to one of the oldest banks in the world, this building is also where Marco Polo's famous travelogue was written.
Genoa, Italy
This peculiar Italian elevator runs both horizontally and vertically.
Genoa, Italy
This cathedral hides a sculpted dog that determines your fate and an unexploded shell from World War II.
Siena, Italy
A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.
Florence, Italy
The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.
Florence, Italy
The middle finger of modernity.
San Martino Al Cimino, Italy
This medieval Italian village was transformed into an architectural marvel by the famous "Papessa" Donna Olimpia.
Montgomery, Alabama
Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.