Places lorenpringle Wants to Go

This life-size monument honors the legacy of a famous literary feline.

A lush oasis full of vibrant plants and striking geometric displays.

This giant sculpture made of trash is a critique of society's wastefulness.

This crumbling Portuguese ruin overlooks the populace it once ruled.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

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

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

Mozart's skull may be held in this collection, but definitive proof continues to elude scientists.

The shell of a medieval fortress offers commanding views of the area it once protected.

The world's largest collection of intentionally useless inventions.

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

Ride a dragon train into a world of dwarves.

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.

A centuries old castle atop a dormant volcano houses museums devoted to both women and witches.

Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.