Places LAS1023 Wants to Go

This stop on the Camino de Santiago stands high above the underwater ruins of a medieval town.

This enormous censer uses a pulley system installed over 400 years ago.

This rough experimental house was created by flooding a dirt hill with concrete.

A fortress off the West coast of Portugal that dates back to 1502.

The mysterious remains of a martyred teenage saint are venerated inside a small country chapel.

A deer-headed statue that brings together a 12th-century legend and big wave surfing.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

The walls of this small village have been turned into a living street art gallery.

Seaside ruins of a settlement that date back to the first century B.C.

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

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

The building hides in plain sight in Ribadavia's historic Jewish quarter.

An architectural gem nestled into a promontory overlooking a prehistoric landscape.

This impressive rupestrian engraving dates back to the Upper Palaeolithic period.

A small sanctuary carved into the mountainside near the tallest point in continental Portugal.

Nestled in the mountains of Portugal is a tiny village made almost entirely of schist.

This gaping hole in the middle of a remote mountain lake looks like a portal to another dimension.

Dedicated to one of the author's most iconic works.

Come for the bread-themed puppet show, stay for the buffet.

The "Little Ones," show Portugal in full miniature splendor.

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

One of the few places in Portugal where the Celtic ritual of wearing large wooden masks is still practiced.

An icon of the city, this chapel features an amazing dome ceiling and offers panoramic views.

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