One of the smallest bookstores on the planet.

The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.

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

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

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.

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

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

This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”

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

A garden in Lisbon filled with giant porcelain creatures.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

A monument to the small town of master violin makers and its countless luthiers.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

A spiral staircase twists to the top of this unusual Czech lookout tower.

Visitors flock to the historic birthplace of radiobalneology for its therapeutic radium treatments.

A larger-than-life statue of the German revolutionist stands proud in a small town where he never lived.

Before serving as James Bond's Casino Royale, this Victorian-era spa catered to the world's elite.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

A former top secret nuclear fallout shelter now operates like a hotel stuck in the Cold War.

A cheeky architectural easter egg.

A peculiar clock commemorates a historic victory won by ringing the noonday bell an hour early.