Places Jenn Eidemiller Wants to Go

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

One man's remarkable private collection of art from around the world.

When Azorean green tea meets volcanic hot springs water, a luminous brew is born.

A small Portuguese cottage formed between boulders in the countryside.

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

In Portugal, a secluded stretch of untouched natural beauty hides at the bottom of a steep hill.

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

A garden in Lisbon filled with giant porcelain creatures.

An ancient and majestic fortress that played an integral role in Portugal's road to independence.

Perhaps the most spectacular grotto along the Algarve coastline.

This once-forgotten oasis in the middle of Lisbon was first created over a century ago quite by accident.

This charming candle shop has been in business since 1789.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

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

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

The Pentagon is so large that it was planned like a city, complete with internal highway infrastructure.

A lightship turned museum, outfitted with artifacts from the vessel's past as part of the U.S. Lighthouse Service.

Get up close and personal at this Fresnel Lens.

The last of nine massive kilns that produced many of the red bricks for buildings in Washington, D.C. and northern Virginia in the early 20th century.

The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

This tree is a living witness to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

The largest cemetery for enslaved people in Loudoun County was almost lost to history, if not for the research of a minister.