Places Madeleine Wants to Go

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

This unassuming chapel in Portugal plays host to a ghoulish collection of bones.

A cluster of granite granaries perched on stilts.

A majestic hotel for dreamers rises from the center of a fairytale wood.

You can cross from one country to another in a single hop on this little bridge.

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

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

This now abandoned restaurant provides some of the most amazing views of Lisboa.

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

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

At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.

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

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

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.

This abandoned five-star hotel is now a five-star urban exploration destination.

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

A hidden three-foot-wide house separates these two regal churches.

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.

Perhaps the most spectacular grotto along the Algarve coastline.

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

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

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